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So you saw all the private linked sources doing that. And concluded government?
I would've likely been better off with a broader term - something like "the wealthy and empowered few" - particularly since the subject at hand concerns the United States, in which the line between private wealth and power and political power grows more vague and hazy day by day.
But yes - ultimately I conclude government, since government is the entity that has established the legal fiction of corporations, that has acted to protect the private wealth by which the political influence to establish things like a predatory health insurance system can exist and has utterly failed to do one of the few things that is a mandate for a government from the start - to protect citizens from harm brought by others and/or to punish those who bring it.
Or to be more precise, if the government had done its job of protecting Americans from a destructive and predatory health insurance system (as opposed to literally mandating it), Luigi's vigilantism likely wouldn't have occurred in the first place, and certainly wouldn't have had so much support if it had.
But since they didn't do their job, it happened, and if they continue to not do their job (as it appears they're determined), then it will happen again, and worse.
Have you looked around outside recently?