Exactly; these are highly successful companies. Sure, they're destroying the planet and leading us to doom, but they're giving the people what they want. Just look at the discussion here today about how awful cars and parking are, and how many people trash public transit and walkable cities because they like their cars and driving everywhere.
The problem isn't big corporations, the problem is regular, everyday people.
they are not wrong, though. from my time in the US, unless you're lucky and decide to stay in a city with half-decent public transport, you NEED a car to get around. No busses, no trains, no trams, only ever-expanding highways and stroads.
these companies spent a whole century destroying public transport to sell more cars. they spend that century spreading propaganda about cars, bribing politicians (or lobbying as you like to call it), and completely redoing the entire infrastructure of a major world power for... more money. you cannot blame the people being exploited for having to buy into a system they cannot do without, in a country where public transport is just a hollow imitation of itself from the past. again, they spent trillions to get things how they are now! government propaganda since the red scare hasn't been as effective as this.
The voters are the ones who don't want walkable cities. Just look at how enraged they get every time some city government (like Culvert City CA) tries to take away car lanes and make them into cycling lanes.
Stop blaming this on "the corporations". The people are the real problem here. They wanted to move away from the Black people and have redlined suburbs away from them, and this is what they got. Euclidean zoning is entirely a local issue, not something forced on everyone by lobbying.
The problem isn't big corporations, the problem is regular, everyday people.