The primary goal is to produce capital so they can reward their stock owners. Actually, what we are watching is one of the largest transfers of wealth in the history of the world from public hands into private hands. First, we're not talking about greed. Greed is an individual expression of avarice. We are talking about a legal system that is designed to allow corporations to maximize their profits by withholding essential resources to other human beings.
Deregulation means that utilities no longer have to provide electricity.
It's completely legal to withhold electricity. They can do with it what they want. We see the same debate over and over in society. The HMOs withhold medical treatment and it's completely legal, but the human beings themselves are suffering. People have to consider attacking the very foundation of this.