Quote - Also take into account where E-on is based.  Not exactly a free-market, competitive, or capitalist country.  So that mindset prevails in its business.

ahem, politics..and those values you quote are not the great uberness they are propagandized to be..
see, Banking Collapse just recently ;)
Any system, taken to extremes, sucks! Problem is, we Humans always take things to extremes! :/

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