The common factor in all of these developments around the industrialized world is the hegemony of corporations and corporate values.
Corporations are a system of power.
It is difficult to find a language to describe how they function. It follows that it is even more difficult to proscribe a regime under which their functioning can be accommodated to the broader interests of society. And yet the language of the law is oftentimes plainly even deliberately misleading. The law describes a static institution when corporations are dynamic. Legal terminology appears to be chosen for political or public relations reasons rather than for the purposes of straightforward communication.