The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
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