Elitist view or rational thing?

[Thorne]

To me the corperation is like a faceless shepherd only his sole consern is in how much profit he will make out of us sheep and how fast he can make it.

So who knows more about the economics of shepherding, the sheep or the shepherd? And who is more guilty, the shepherd who tends his flock, feeds them and protects them? Or the people who buy their wool, and their meat? And if no one is buying the wool or meat, of what use is the shepherd, or the sheep?

As for whose opinions matter when it comes to economics (or anything else)...which btw is the topic of the thread as presented by the op
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ~Marcus Aurelius

Which is a very good reason to trust the economics of the country to those who actually know something of economics, and not to men and women whose only understanding of money is how to raise enough of it to be reelected.