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Maybe those people are prioritising the things that seem to affect their lives? I can certainly see exactly the same argument about government or religion as about corporations, but currently the biggest companies (the Microsofts and Sonys and their like) seem to have more power than even some of the biggest governments.
There is also the issue of legal personality, which applies to corporations and not to governments or religions.
The corporation actually seems to me a great example of a non-biological, non-software optimization process, and I'm surprised at Eliezer's implicit assertion that there is no significant difference between corporations, governments, and religions with respect to their ability to be unfriendly optimization processes, other than that some people of a certain political bent have a bias to think about corporations differently than other institutions like governments and religions.