There is such a thing as greed.....

The big problem with it, is the focus change of a lot of companies where the profits are now heavily driven by the shareholders to the point that some companies in effect only treat the share holders as customers rather than the person who buys thier products. Hence the drive for market domination or monopolys, you can fuck over the consumer as much as you want as they haven't got a choice if they want your type of product.

Noone is suggesting people shouldnt make a profit, its the balance between shareholder and consumer as customers that seems to be changing the most, and that isnt related to the recession as weve had boom and bust plenty of times before without the same effect.