Nothing particular prompted it. Or, in other words, everything in general, plus a conversation I had recently where I was explaining my observation that it's easy to confound the company and the people who represent it, particularly with a sense of loyalty and reciprocity. Even very smart people think it's reasonable to be loyal to a corporation, and I very strongly disagree.

I do think there are better alternatives, though I also think we lack the political will to enact them (and that's more and more true every day). Currently, corporations are exclusively driven by money, but if we were to include some ethical values in their structure and definition (e.g., asserting that a corporation should do the "right" thing even if it costs money or means making less, or demanding that the cost of manufactured goods include externalized costs [like the cost of cleaning up oil spills being part of the price of gas] as well as internalized ones, that might help), a clause that demands they be good citizens, that could address at least some of the problems we see today.