The Man the Banks Fear Most, The American Prospect/ Huffington Post

[yurbud]

4. the single greatest achievement of Occupy Wall Street was getting people to see Wall St

as the masters and government as the slave.

We need a similar epiphany about the relationship between big business and crime (and not just the white collar kind). From drug money laundering to hiring death squads to uppity natives in oil rich countries, if average people knew the extent corporations went to to make a profit, comments about being careful about whether to fly in small planes would seem less crackpot and more obvious.

I have often wondered if there's a course MBA's take that helps them decide whether to run a particular business legally or as a criminal enterprise. You can certainly see the calculus with recreational drugs. The additional cost of skullduggery are outweighed by potential product liability if they were legal.