Which American industry is the most corrupt/amoral/sociopath?

[iconoclastNYC]

Poll question: Which American industry is the most corrupt/amoral/sociopath?

[msongs]

1. you forgot the religion industry btw not necessarily referring to

any relion but rather the religion "industry"

edit to add the point

Msongs
www.msongs.com
batik & digital art
get your pics on a shirt

[iconoclastNYC]

2. that would make the result too obvious

[Cocoa]

3. the spyware industry

:puke:

[iconoclastNYC]

4. Spyware is easy to get rid of

[CAG]

5. Big pharma - they've perfected their propaganda to maintain 20% profit

margins for close to a decade, have the largest number of K street pukes, and do so while manipulating the heartstrings of the nations most vulnerable.

[eallen]

6. All industry is amoral, from Whole Foods to Smith & Wesson.

They each and every one are doing their best to exploit and expand in their target market, most efficiently exploiting the resources that can be bent to that purpose. Those that don't do this well, disappear. Those that succeed, have their technology and business processes emulated by partners and competitors. That's the way the market works. Anyone who mistakes a business for a person or the logic of business for moral concern is making a fundamental error. Asking which businesses or industries are sociopathic is much like asking which word processors are well-intentioned, or which automobile engines are psychotic. It makes a good theme for a Stephen King horror novella, precisely because we tend to anthropomorphize. It is a mistake, nonetheless. "Amoral," is correct, literally. Businesses, industries, word processors, and engines simply fall outside the moral sphere.

[Doctor_J]

7. Insurance - the highest costs, worst coverage

in the industrialized world. The ultimate middle men.

[Lib Grrrrl]

8. I Picked Insurance, Because

you only get one choice. But if I could choose as many as I wanted it woulda been Big Oil, Big Pharma, Insurance, Defense Contractors, and Credit Card Companies.

[Solo_in_MD]

9. You forgot professional politicians...though there are exceptions

they are as zleazy as they come

[iconoclastNYC]

10. Aren't all politicians professional?

Maybe not Jesse Ventura, or the Grophenfhurer out of Califoria, but almost all the others?

[Solo_in_MD]

11. Pretty much

Though those who server on small town water boards, school boards, and town councils often are not.

[iconoclastNYC]

14. I think there'd be less

Corrupt professional politicians if there were less corrupt business owners to bribe them.

[Solo_in_MD]

15. No one forces a pol to accept a bribe if its offered

[iconoclastNYC]

16. I bet you sleep easy at night

Sometimes they offer you the bribe and when you don't take it they kidnap your children or something like that. The weak among us "come to thier senses" as you might say.

[sendero]

23. About 95%..

... of them are, and that is THE problem.

People who were planning to serve as the framers intended would do a term or two and go home. They would not NEED corporate money, and they could vote their conscience.

Look how far we've come.

[rucky]

28. Not on the local level. n/t

[zonmoy]

12. How about businesses like walmart they are way up there on the

sociopathic scale.

[DBoon]

13. public accountants

I worked there. Amazing stuff.

[Alexodin]

17. Blackwater because they torture people. n/t

[iconoclastNYC]

18. Randi Rhodes got sued for saying a lot less than that

So be careful.

Oh wait, I think it was another one...."Kaki?"

[Alexodin]

19. You may be thinking of Caci Intl. and Titan Corp. is another.

[rucky]

27. So Do HMO's. n/t

[Kickin_Donkey]

20. Hell, name one that ISN'T corrupt/amoral/sociopathic ...

In addition to the ones you listed, there are tons of other big offenders: land development, meatpacking, telecom, pharmaceutical, mining, logging, media, agrochemical, the auto industry, apparel manufacturing, big-box retailing, PR firms, advertising, entertainment world, food processing, fast food, information technology ...

[unhappycamper]

21. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7 get my vote. n/t

[Totally Committed]

22. Mygawd! They are ALL pretty bad....

I couldn't pick just one. They are all out to screw us at the expense of their bottom lines -- each and every one. That's the most depressing poll I've seen here in a long time. Goddam!

TC

[Exultant Democracy]

24. Military Industrial Complex

"A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction...

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. " Ike

[primative1]

25. Financial "Community"

You left out Wall Street. IMO that entire show should be canceled.

[rucky]

26. You may as well put Healthcare and Pharma in the same category..

since they both have one hand scratching each other's backs, and their other hands in each other's pockets.

[donsu]

29. you left out the food barons

nt

[lonehalf]

30. Why did you leave out...

so many others.

Like restaurants, garbage collection, political parties, carpet makers, artists, museums, city governments, county governments, state governments, aquariums, computer companies, mail companies, printers and newspapers, lawyers... etc, ad infinitum