> Nearly all the material goods around me and a ton of services were provided by corporations

But the issue is not about corporations - or companies - per se.

The issue is how they relate to the general population. You can have good corporations and bad corporations. When billionaires buy legislation then something is wrong. When a corrupt elite invades countries and kills people - that's bad.

So the problem with corporations is that governments sometimes do bad things that benefit them?

The problem of "billionaires buying legislation" is that billionaires get money from market activity to buy it with, not that it's up for sale by politicians or that the limits on the scope of legislation are insufficient?

When a military force marches into another country, that's the work of a vague "corrupt elite" and not the political officials in charge of the military?