| | I don't share your apparently cynical view about the "reformability" of the human race, but I agree that implementing many of the recommendations often leads to worse.
In any case, would you accept that while corruption can not be eliminated it can be considerably lessened from its current level? You may disagree, but my experience is that business persons were, in general, much more ethical forty years ago -- and the change has little to do with government regulations.
The desire to encourage large business managers to be more ethical comes, at least in my case, not from a philosophical inclination toward socialism, nor a belief that businessman tend, these days, toward corruption because they produce benefits for themselves and others. It's the result of recognizing that they and their views, at least as much as government leaders and laws, are at the forefront of destroying capitalism -- because of their unethical behavior. And I'm not talking here about the occasional Enron.
It's very difficult to convince people that capitalism and business are good -- which indeed they are -- when so many of it's alleged practitioners are, shall we say, less than shining examples of what an individual ought to be like. Simply saying, in effect, "well those aren't really capitalists" does not work.
The problem is not political and it won't be solved by political change.
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