South Korea has Samsung.
Japan has Sony and JVC.
US has General Motors, Big tobacco.
UK has it’s financial sector, which unofficially so but influences or tries to influence the laws that may affect itself, in extension to influencing the well being of the country. The country must survive for the survival of the business. The country must prosper for the business to flourish. And for the business to thrive, if there is a tad bit of tinkering needed with the legality of some issue, it must be done. Because lobbying is necessary to the control it all in favor of the company, as not to threaten the profits of the company.
It’s not as evil as it may sound like, because the company itself is running the much needed foreign exchange of the country, means the country essentially needs the company as well. The country may get a lot of benefits from just one giant that it wouldn’t want to cause any inconvenience in an entity that is feeding itself as well as cultivating a feedable habitat for the environment around and the tiny but many plantations nearby.
So since it’s not essentially evil, the only evil would be when the company lobbyists wouldn’t care about the country’s citizens in order to maximize it’s profits. However, of the country citizens, it is also to be noted that they unknowingly become the employees (or at least affectees) of the company. If the company does good, they prosper, or at least remain where they are. If the company does bad, the country’s budget gets affected and ipso facto the citizens get affected too. Mr. XYZ is self-employed in a country which has a giant corporate. He thinks he is not related to it, but if the giant collapses, the GDP may be affected, the foreign investment, the tax rate, the employment, the whole chain reaction and his personal life is affected the same way that the employees of the giant’s are.
But the problem arises when the company has more consumers in other countries than it’s own, and it uses it’s country’s citizens as modern serfdom or peasants just to export more goods and import more foreign exchange in lieu to maximize profits to the fullest. That is where it can be troublesome because it can go against the country’s citizens’ benefit. But the company is so strong already, it’s lobbyists are strong, the company can maneuver laws in their favor to continue doing this, because it is profits that matter in comparison to merchandise (read people).