Originally Posted by Bostonian
Businesses are run to profit their owners, but they do so (by and large) by producing efficiently what people want. That is no more problematic than workers choosing jobs and consumers choosing products to maximize their own welfare. I don't see why the pursuit of self-interest by some economic actors and not others should be criticized.

It's problematic because scale. Imagine the damage each economic actor can inflict on the environment and economy in terms of explosive yield:

1 worker = 1 firecracker
1 small business = 1 stick dynamite
1 large business = 1 pound C4
1 publicly-traded corporation = 1 bunker buster
1 global corporation = 1 nuclear bomb

And now you know why 2007 looked so much like economic nuclear winter.