Topic: Policy
In many respects, corporate / government policies are not designed for their customer's / citizen's best interest, but rather their own best interests.
One example is:
Consumer health protection policies.
Rates of cancer have been increasing in a large part due to the products we consume, whether it is genetically modified oranges or your foam office chair, seafood with high heavy metal content or mobile phones. FDA and other safety ensuring governmental organizations have created policy loopholes to allow companies to place dangerous products on the market while at the same time giving consumers a false sense of the safety of such products. The problem is that a single product on its own might contribute little to the risk of cancer and might therefore be acceptable by FDA standards. However, many of such products cumulatively cause higher risk. Current policies don't seem to factor in the basket of products we consume together in determining their collective contribution to the risk of developing cancer and other diseases. This in effect represents one such way in which corporate / government interests are protected at the expense of the interests of consumers / citizens.
Can you think of others?