mg,

What I am trying to say, and not doing a very good job with is this:

The effect of the unchecked exercise of power in favor of the powerful is to disempower those with less power. It is not necessarily that a bunch of CEO's get together to decide how to oppress people.

Some on this thread argue that only the poor are accountable. The powerful are also accountable. Our social policies tend to emphasize the accountability of the lower socioeconomic class and deemphasize the accountability of the upper socioeconomic class, represented by corporations.

Janie