Pissed.
I know that's the first feeling I get looking at the photos of the devastation of the gulf coast. I'm pissed that people were so stupid, so mindlessly greedy, that they were willing to play dice with God's creation to achieve a higher shareholder dividend. Someone must pay. And that someone shall be BP, the company that made this disaster inevitable. That's what anger demands: a recipient.
But is it sufficient to lay the blame with BP? Wasn't Exxon similarly greedy and negligent during the Valdez disaster? And why stop there? Why not look at Union Carbide and Bhopal? Or, to use a more timely example, Goldman Sachs and our financial system? Why are so many corporations so blatantly rogue?
Could it be because the system is designed to reward the rogue corporation over the responsible? More below the fold.
