I know fantasy is just labels and archetypes but I think you are doing your fantasy world a huge disservice if you just label the bad guys an empire or the corporations as evil. There are a lot of details people love in world building that putting labels on entire systems for "good" and "bad" is just reductive. I can think of a hundred reasons why an expanding empire can be the good guys or why the rebels are the bad guys for a change.

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Fantasy is full of idealism and even in a historical sense people were more likely to uphold their beliefs. All your going to get today, fantasy or as an answer to historicism, is cynicism and money as your answers. Just look at how many people think that rape was widespread and that peasants worked themselves to death before age 25 because its more "gritty" that way.