I may have posted this quote on another thread, but for those of you who missed it, famous 19th economist Frederic Bastiat proclaimed:
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Though the idea was loosely understood when he was alive, the truth is that he was describing those who believe in a socialist form of government.
If you read a bit of history your would find that could just as easily - maybe more so - be applied to so called capitalists. So adding crook and crook where exactly have we arrived.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/opinion/16horn.html
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary." Adam Smith