I believe societies are incredibly resilient. Economic forces are generally stronger than even fairly strong and oppressive states. Most of what states do merely retards advancement. I wouldn't claim that many of the governments of the world are actually regressing their societies through policy, though that could change pretty soon. Markets will solve problems where people value the solutions, and that's all. States tend to make up phantom problems, or attempt to solve problems that aren't high priorities for enough people for market-based solutions to gain traction.

Re: the corporate sociopaths, their fallout is generally limited to a smaller area than the political system would have allowed, and they're accountable, unlike politicians. And most importantly it would be nice if they didn't have so much facility to lobby the state to leverage their harm.