I had the unfortunate experience of working for a company in the late 80's that T Boone Pickens had set his eyes on.  He had decided to branch out from speculation on silver to speculation on gold. His idea appeared to be buy up the top producers, stop the production, and watch his investments in gold and silver sky rocket. We avoided his hostile take over by the skin of our teeth, but that endeavor forced 325 lay offs. Your point about the relative misery caused by sins in the bedroom vs sins in the boardroom is well taken.  Unfortunately sins in the bedroom effect people at the kitchen table while sins in the boardroom appear to be out there somewhere happening to other people....until they hit the kitchen table.  Then it's a different story.