Yes, one trouble with this discussion is that the term "the corporate world" is just too fuzzy and covers too many types of businesses. If we look at the history of corporations from the Catholic church (the "corpus" of Christ) to the present, most of the important problems stem from (a) a miscategorizing of the organizational with the organic; and (b) size. Problem (a) is the endemic problem of being tempted to give one's spiritual allegiance to an organization rather than what it is meant to embody, such as Christ (you can put an X in that spot). And organizations like to muddy that difference. Problem (b) is, how do you get large numbers of people to work together at all on a common effort?
Corporations are one solution to problems (a) and (b), and I am not convinced that they are a very effective solution. Among the related problems are their legal status as "rights-bearing" entities, which gives them in many jurisdictions equivalent status to human beings. Another problem is the widespread lack of internal structural rules to cope with abuses brought on by corporate goals and the lack of oversight of a system supposedly working for shareholders through boards of directors. These flaws are not, it seems to me, related to the nature of the people involved, but part of the corporate structure as a concept itself. Good people can make any system work. Corporations as a system seem to have basic flaws -- but other systems have them too: universities and non-governmental organizations that I work for have terrible structural flaws. I don't think that we large-brained chimpanzees have worked out the bugs yet in how we work together. Mudcat is probably closer to the answer.
yours, Peter T.