The problem is that there's no financial or social distinction between investing and sponsoring, and raiding for profit. The shares, the trades and the markets used to mediate these relationships are indistinguishable.

it's the stone truth.

by social you could say ethical, same difference.

you succinctly describe the moral fault line whence the Great Quake cometh.

'blind eye' indeed. practically a whole society playing bingo on a raft going over niagara.

beam me up scotty

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~