bingo. Capitalism is greed tempered by fear. If either element is missing or unbalanced, you no longer have capitalism.
Eloquently described in the term "too big to fail".....quite possibly the single biggest scam to be thrust on the American people since Socialist (in)Security....but wait, the EPA has its' own plans......
“An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced,” original source: Part II, Section 2, pages 387-391 of the paperback Atlas Shrugged.
I tend to like this moral principle regarding money and capitalism. All the rest is looting and mooching. Equating greed to capitalism is a false argument. Greed is the motivation of looters.