>I'm afraid that "making a profit for their owner's" has become the license to try to get away with whatever one can. And it is clear to me that the demise of the Communist block has changed the situation for the worse. Whereas before it was necessary to keep the brakes on much of the MBA's finaglings in order to show that our system is far more advantageous to it's citizens than communism, now it is a free-for-all. Wherever big business can exploit, it will.

My thoughts exactly. I've said this many years ago, and I'm sad to see it happen.

Capitalism has lost its primary ingredient - competition. Now it's getting more and more under its own influence. Most of the makeup it received in the previous century is peeling off.