Urg... miscommunication somewhere. The point of my Enron example is to show what the Stalinism/gulag example is trying to do. In my view, they are trying to s

Urg... miscommunication somewhere. The point of my Enron example is to show what the Stalinism/gulag example is trying to do. In my view, they are trying to say "things haven't changed as much as you think." Of course, there are other ways to put this, but the author needed to balance out the sadness/horror/etc... he felt with being historically accurate[1]/sensitive. [1] As some here have argued, he may have thought the historical analogy was accurate enough. Just from some of the replies, it can be argued that this view isn't totally nonsense.