you'd be better off thinking of who benefits and what their incentives are. Because people by and large are acting based on incentives, and if you can reshape the incentive structures then you can discourage the action (by opposition eg. making it punishable) or remove the incentive altogether (through systems interventions).
Blaming it on politics leaves you with no actions to take beyond trying to talk people into acting against their incentives - which you can do, but it's not easy to get people to change their minds en-masse.
>if you can reshape the incentive structures then you can discourage the action
Yes, which is why it's important to be politically involved, governments are the ones with power to change incentive structures at the scale of large companies or society-wide. I do agree with your first paragraph, but your second paragraph does not make sense to me, it's not "blaming it on politics", politics is the exact mechanism to enact the changes you refer to in your first paragraph.
perhaps we're thinking of politics in different senses - it is, after all, quite an overloaded word. I meant politics as in people's personal perspective and beliefs about the world. I agree that engaging in the politics of changing our governance for the better is necessary.
Blaming it on politics leaves you with no actions to take beyond trying to talk people into acting against their incentives - which you can do, but it's not easy to get people to change their minds en-masse.