Gone are the dames, the wiseguys, the scams, the hustles. Corporation bashers come in all flavors, from the pious to the punks. It is a slave to consumer demand, and it will ruthlessly exploit whatever the market will bear. Nor should consumers be shy about personalizing their corporate grievances when they feel abused. I don't ascribe any extra ill-will or extraordinary greed to a company's failure to perform.
Mere incompetence explains it quite nicely.
To bemoan Disney or Hooters or the new Vegas is to condemn consumer demand itself. Contributing Editor Thomas W. Hazlett , an economist at the University of California at Davis, is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Click here for an index of Articles .