And I'm sorry, but anyone who believes that Corporations are tools to protect the individual is just naive.
It's a tool. It can be used for good or bad purposes. I think I know a thing or two about corporate law, considering I own two, and one of my best friends has a degree in tax law.
If you have a sole propietership and you get sued, you can lose your car, your house, everything. If you have a corporation, only the corporation's assets can be taken. This is called the corporate veil, and it only is violated in cases of fraud.
Besides that, you can't really do business without a corporation, because no one will take you seriously. Most NDAs and other agreements I have seen are formatted so that they expect the signee to be a corp.
Like I said, the majority of U.S. corporations have 0 or 1 employees, so it isn't really fair to blame problems on "corporations" as a general thing. If you want to blame it on bloodsucking billionaires, that's fine, but blaming a corporation because they sit in their "corporate" buildings doing "corporationy" stuff is just silly.