"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KTbEn7PiaY&amp;t=1h02m30s"">1:02:30</a> - The primary problem I'm coming to understand in capitalism - you're trying to both not get out-gunned by your competitors and keep your board of directors and shareholders happy. Both of these make maximization of profits non-optional", the only alternative being if it's an employee-owed company, and even then with shareholders removed from the equation it takes a heck of a lot for a benevolent company to keep up to speed, competitively, with a ruthless company or several ruthless companies in its field.