Examinator, I don't need to explain anything away. I watched
some of those interviews on Bloomberg.

As it happens, the regulators who were meant to be regulating all
this, were told by politicians that companies would regulate themselves.
Do you remember a Mr Bush? This is of course a furphy,
as we saw in the gulf, as we saw on Wall St.

Corporations are made up of individuals and some of those individuals
push the limits, break laws, just like other individuals do.
They are no different to you, your neighbour, the bloke down the
road, who as individuals push the limits, sometimes break laws
etc.

For some strange reason you just seem to have a bee in your bonnet
about corporations. Do you think that politicians are never reckless,
never break rules?

That is exactly why we need checks and balances in society and
a separation of the powers. If they fail, our society starts to
fail.

Greedy people, selfish people, dishonest people exist at all levels
of society. But a bee in your bonnet about corporations, is
something that you seem to have a real chip on your shoulder about.

There are in fact plenty of law abiding, productive and honest
corporations out there, just as there are people much the same.
For it is people who run them in the end.

Yabby,
A. it's not an interview its a report.
B. It's a matter of Scale
Your argument is so shallow as to be meaningless.

You are trying to argue the equivalent of excusing the excesses of a genocidal army because there are individual murderers.
Pure Bolitics! old boy.

*You are trying to argue the equivalent of excusing the excesses of a genocidal army because there are individual murderers*

Bollocks. Nobody set out to murder anyone. The interviews gave
a reavealing insight into what was needed to write the report.

You of all people, who always go on about things being more
complex then they first appear, just write it all down to
corporations.

But corporations are made up of lots of employees, many who
make poor judgement calls. To understand this kind of thing,
you need to study the details and at what level decisions
were made and why.

For a society to function, for a corporation to function,
you need checks and balances. When things get out of whack
you commonly land up with disaster, as history shows.

Poor politicians can be as much to blame as poor employees
of corporations.

If you don't understand these fundamantals, then you have
little understanding of basic human nature

Yabby
The word is Bolitics .....a cross between Bollocks and your Malthusian
excuse for politics.

Examinator, ok, so you cannot answer my points, I did not expect
you to.

Perhaps sometime you should spend just a bit of time thinking about
greedy consumers for a change. Today on radio, people rang in to
say what tricks they got up to, to obtain a refund from stores.
Their greed and fraud has no limits!

Fact is that today most businesses understand one thing. There
is a certain % of consumers, who are never satisfied. They will
always complain, always want things even cheaper, they lack all
ability to think objectively. The best thing with those is to
encourage them to shop elsewhere!

............the worst thing by far in todays so-called customer service is those who justify it.