[Quarrelsome]

> I love how the society we currently live in places so much confidence in the statement that "corporations = efficient, rational market actors"...

That's the lie. Its always been the case that a free market needs regulation to prevent it turning into a feudal state. Its just that wannabe feudal states have an interest in making the population think that regulation is bad and in the US at least there is less regulation on political lobbying than there should be. The capitalist and free market mantra is correct but without a regulation and legal arm restraining its worst excess it breeds corruption and corruption is a concern of every system.

[salesguy222]

Yup! I am mostly in agreement. What is scary, I'd say, is that we do have many regulations and legal checks and prosecutors and laws and so on and so forth here...

... they just aren't enforced at all on the big dogs who are doing all the crazy shit.

You have to be as wreckless as Enron to even get a taste of post-hoc legal smackdown, and even then, the damage is still done.