Re: the greedy bastards of this world won't make any money.
@JimmyPage
About the US.
Eisenhower hit the nail on the head. The Roosevelts were pretty good too. It appears to me that Jimmy Carter was either the last honest (mostly honest) President or that Governance has become so stifled by Lobbyists that we can no longer tell who's taking backhanders. I'd suggests that all Politicians, other than a very few (ie Bernie Sanders), are beholden to Corporations as the cost of American elections are stratospheric.
Some of you may recognize how far to the right the entirety of the US (and much of the world's) political discourse has been forced by Corporations/the wealthy since the mid-1970s.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
