Right. What people don't seem to understand is that this sort of corporate malfeasance HURTS CAPITALISM.

You want to create a bunch of socialists real fast?

Inflate the stock price of your company through lying to the SEC.
Sell off all of your stock using insider info just before it starts to tank, but forbid your employees from selling theirs.
When the company goes under, lay off thousands without severance or their 401K (which you encouraged to be mostly invested in the now-worthless company stock), while taking a golden parachute for yourself.
Then, when they're all out on the street looking for work, grumble to your wealthy friends about all the freeloaders in America these days, getting fat off your taxes.

These people are the kind of idiots who caused the French Revolution.

Does anyone other than me think the following?

• There should be a corporate death penalty (ie. that in cases where the company is beyond redemption in honourable business practices the gov't force the corporation to shut down and split it's assets among employees)
• The fines for shredding documents in order to hide evidence or avoid prosecution should be equal to or greater than an estimate of the settlement of the issue in question
  

I'm a good capitalist boy, but I am so sick of corporation dishonour, mishandling, lies, bribes, hidden agendas, corruption, kickbacks, paper shredding, et al, that I am fervently hoping for the final scene of Fight Club to come to fruition sooner rather than later.