It's greed. Capitalism only works if you have a strong set of checks and balances. You need everyone watching everyone else. The United States kinda works.

It's greed. Capitalism only works if you have a strong set of checks and balances. You need everyone watching everyone else. The United States kinda works. It only kinda works because crooks, blatant they be, in the end, get caught. The corrupt politican will eventually get caught. The corrupt building inspector will eventually get caught. The Doctor who performs unnessary surgeries eventually gets caught. I don't believe we have the best system, but I do believe we are the best at squashing corruption. All the wanna be capitalistic countries need to cure corruption before being capitalists. You can't have both. I have always found corruption despicipable. Even thinking about it now infuriates me. I live among very rich individuals. So many of them stepped on others in order to get their wad. All are in denial. And they wonder why their kids look at them with such contempt. Yes--America has its share of wormy, corrupt, in denial, weasels. We just seem to have less than other countries? I don't know what the future will bring. I have seen some people do some despicipable things in order to get ahead. I didn't find The Social Network cool. I saw a vile, little man, do anything in order to get ahead. Yes--my generation had Wallstreet. Most of us didn't find it cool. I'm not saying my generation were saints, but we didn't do it all for the paper. (I got off track with that last paragraph, and expect a lashing from Millenials.)