> except that when the position holds so much scrutiny, the ROI is analysed in greater depth. It may be unfair at a human level but is completely rational from

> except that when the position holds so much scrutiny, the ROI is analysed in greater depth. It may be unfair at a human level but is completely rational from an accounting perspective The problem is that the position has an amount of "scrutiny" that is improper from an accounting perspective (...the point of the article...), but comes from the social status of the people holding the role. Of course, it's not actually accounting scrutiny at all that's the difference here (because if it were, even minimal scrutiny would reveal the error), but rather the social position of the people, and thus their access to influence of decisions. Your argument is nothing but trying to guise an unsupported position about the relative importance of social classes in the terminology of economics, even though your economic arguments are baseless and wrong (in terms of their economic merit). This is part of a wider trend in the US to eliminate class consciousness and the social duty of the upper classes to the lower, and perhaps you're merely repeating those arguments without having really analyzed what they're saying. Your point about the larger pattern in capitalist systems is correct: capture of market execution is sufficient for market corruption, but can be difficult to prove after the fact. This is the general strategy of the ruling class to control the lower classes in the US.