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To the extent this addresses anything real, it would be more accurate to say "Capitalism favors capitalists (who, in any capitalist system, also have disproportionate power over the state), socialism favors people to the extent that they have power over the state, both at the cost of people outside the favored class."

Neither "companies" or "the state" exist as things that can be favored, they are (at most) vehicles through which some subset of "the people" exercise power.




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