If we are talking about financially, then it is of course obvious that governments would side with the companies and make them richer and make us poorer. Lets sit down for a moment and think why? Well, simply because those governments consist of people, a president, a vice president, a congress, a senate, or whatever else you have in your nation, they are all PEOPLE, just like you and me, they are not any different. When you are a politician, you do not become politician to make the world a better place, you can't get anywhere with that mindset, majority of people who have that mindset loses the in-party elections, doesn't mean none ever go up, but its rare. So who does go up? The ones who are willing to bend the rules for their own benefit, because that means you will bend the rules for others benefit too, so the people in the party system that can take you higher, will want someone who will bend the rules for their benefit as well. When you get people like that in the government, that means they will get paid by companies, to do their bidding, and they will use their political power to make sure companies who bribe them end up doing better. It is as simple as that.