Quote Originally Posted by crb View Post
No they don't, it is in a business' self interest to do what their customers want, which is generally the "right" thing.
There are three problems with this statement:

1. No entity always does what is in its self-interest. There are times it is unwilling or incapable of doing so, and there are times it simply does not know.

2. It is in a business' self interest for its customers to believe it is giving them what they want. Enron workers happily made 401k contributions, for instance.

3. What the mob wants is not generally the right thing (that's why we don't have mob rule in the first place) and even if it was businesses have no way of knowing what that is. If they did, why would businesses ever release busts? Windows ME, Vista, 8, I could go on.