I may be becoming more of a western european socialist than my capitalist conservative parents would be comfortable with, (shrugs but who am I kidding...I am a progressive registed republican who identifies as an independent tea bagger)becuase I dont see one reason in hell why profits beyound a certian degree shouldnt be re-invested into the economey as a whole at the lowest levels...it would only benifit us all.

Would this really limit our choices as consumers? I doubt it. It didnt limit anything for the europeans all that much if at all.

Corperations were originally only temporary formed for the explicit purpose of combining individual resources to build specific public works...such as a city park or an amphlitheater etc.

They were initially designed to be a public service....not to become some kind of tyranical headless faceless greed monster that only worked for the sake of profit and profit alone, who can now in the USA outright buy any politician they wish openly.

I see nothing whatsoever wrong with "fixing" them when it is obvious they are broken.

"Unless the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power and philosophy coincide in the same place, while the many natures now making their way to either apart from the other are by necessity excluded, there is no rest from ills for the cities, my dear Glaucon, nor I think for human kind, nor will the regime we have now described in speech ever come forth from nature, insofar as possible, and see the light of the sun." Plato's Republic