I don't disagree with any of the above but the "villainy" of these companies and leaders is not all that subtle. Just hidden. For example...
Tim Cook may look like a saint of the liberal variety and the champion of diversity. This is the image created. He is ruthless when it comes to supply chains squeezing them with whatever he can get away with legally and the number of small companies that have gone to the graveyard with the feast, plunder and famine approach of the company towards its suppliers is high. His company is considered an icon of American exceptionalism and pride and yet his accountants play every trick in the book to keep the profits away from the U.S. Treasury in taxation. He knowingly leads a company that practices predatory exploitation of the developer community leveraging monopolistic power (though satisfying the legal definition is tough) with selective enforcement of rules depending on self-interests.
But like many leaders and companies, Apple has also developed a cult of identity and an army of shareholders that have benefited that will defend it against any such accusations as long as they themselves are not affected, the practices are largely hidden and average person is disinclined to believe that such a "honest and iconic company" could be doing something so wrong. Cook's support for immigration is limited to protests only when his business model (of getting cheap labor) is affected. My conclusion from the last few years watching various things happening around me is that people are easily corruptible.
It is frustrating for people who know what is going on but do not have the power to expose it (may look familiar in other areas). One could find such things in almost any middle to large company.
One might look at the above in an extreme capitalistic, survival-of-the-fittest way and say that is what drives progress and efficiency. But that is only half the truth. We don't need to get into intangible and soft side-effects to see the damage foot-print.
The more you look at larger businesses from the inside, more one is astonished at the image people on the outside (or even employees outside the executive suites) of the clean and "ethical" image of a company. Without getting into socialism or capitalism or any such things, the business practices of companies are rotten on the inside and intentionally so by having no other way of satisfying their goals.
Not to say smaller companies are immune to this but their company ethics and policies tend to be far more influenced/controlled by the owner or head who are relatively free to moderate their practices to their values. So, it depends on how rotten they are personally rather than the institutionalized rot in large companies.