[AstralTraveller (David)]

Ladies and Gentlemen: SNAFU. That is all this is.

Humayun's mate got the soul and morals of this type spot on. The question this poses is whether these type of people were innately as they are now or whether they became that way as they became embedded in the system. Obviously it must be a bit of both but don't underestimate the latter. By the time a person reaches this level they have become the embodiment of the corporate ethos. They personify those absract entities, the corporations, which "are driven by greed and the green is all that matters".

Asking the shareholders to regulate the executives is futile. Shareholders are the biggest spongers of the lot (forget the 'mum and dad' investors - their role is trivial). These people believe that because they have money they deserve to get more without doing any work. Often too the shareholder in one corporation is another corporation whos CEO is making a bomb and so is unlikely to point a finger at a fellow executive. Then there is the close interconnection between the executives and the big shareholders - in fact they are sometimes one and the same. No, change won't come from that driection.

Anyway, off the soapbox.

David