[sillyquiet]

Right? These are just re-treads of the 'rich, powerful, and influential face fewer consequences for misdeeds' that has been a factor of human life since probably forever. Other economic systems have so far not proven themselves immune to this.

I won't go so far as to say that capitalism has more controls to mitigate this effect, since I think there is a fair point to be made that we do need to start checking the power of corporations, and those controls have not so far presented themselves without assuming government intervention.

[azinman2]

I think the idea behind a robust capitalist society is that there would be government intervention required, otherwise you have trust issues.

In fact, I'd argue capitalism is generally better tuned for this because it decentralizes power. It's much easier for the government to regulate someone else than to regulate itself.

Now if we could solve campaign finance issues, then corruption would be dramatically lessened.