Human quality of life tends to be pretty shit without them though, and that is ignoring all of the competitively a necessity "choices" where not doing so is literally suicidal. Not adopting early agriculture and settling down leads to nomadic hunter gatherers being outnumbered and genocided by sedentary farmers sorts of necessity. Refusing to mine and pollute means bad things happen to you when you encounter metallic armed and armored foes.

Sure you can. You can vote to get rid of corporations, and you'll get outvoted. Ergo: we.

You don't understand how kings work if you think it's equivalent to your situation in a western democracy.