While this thread is a salute to Marxist Idealism at it's best, there is little doubt that the shift toward a global community has influenced HOW we see big business and business leaders. Additionally, there is a more progressive trend or enlightenment toward ecological responsibility and conservation which run contrary to the rampant consumerism that dominated American industry and society since WWII. Taken together, it isn't any wonder that we are now wishing to re-write how we describe behavior that, in our parents age, was considered laudable, the goal of making money and obtaining wealth and power. The only thing I find disturbing is the willingness to offer up the new "jews" by the new "Nazis". Psychopaths? Hardly. I have always been more inclined to see the business world through socialistic or a collective lens and never really understood the "profit at all cost" mentality. I see the corporate "greed" structure as basically untenable, offering a living wage, benefits and investing in the community are tantamount for creating and maintaining long term profitability...however, as one professor of mine noted...in the long term, we are all dead. Soapbox all you want, it still sounds like all this thread is doing is looking for the new scapegoat.
