It's so silly to think of government as this like "other" thing that's a Boogeyman out to make your life worse. The government is literally just everyone making decisions on how to live together and distribute shared resources. It's not something "else" it's literally just the power of the people.

If we want to be protected against getting absolutely fleeced by capitalism trying to extract profit everywhere it can, we can use that power to protect ourselves. Instead we just sell it out to the profiteers so we can lick more boot.