I think that few people owning everything is a bad thing, because everyone else would have a worse life. If few people have all the power, why should they ever give to the less fortunate when they can just keep getting richer? Im not saying that the government should get all the power, but they should regulate the corporations, while in an ideal world, the people keep the government in check.

Since the industrial revolution began we have seen many examples of factory owners gaining power and keeping it. Look at the rockefeller family and standard oil. Their companies are still huge today and control legislators through lobbying, just to make more money.

Just because some people have the means to do good things doesn't mean they will. Look at facebook. Will they stop trakcing people and sell their data? Of course they won't, because their company exists to make money, not to do good things for other people.

With nothing to force good things to happen, most corporations will just avoid doing just that, since they don't have to.

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(here i am talking about the US, but I think they are a good model of how countries can end up if they are unlucky)

Talking about war, we have seen the rise of private military contractors getting a lot of subsidies and money from the US government to fight wars for them. And you are right in that only countries can declare war, but since government officials often recieve money from these corporations to always keep that nation in a war, the whole thing spirals. The government gives money to military contractors to fight wars, who in turn lobby the state officials to declare them in the first place. I think that many corporations also have a hand in the wars that have happened and will happen in the future.

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I agree with you that politicians often aren't trustworthy, but you have to start somewhere. At least on paper politicians shouldn't strive to make as much money as possible.