Our gluttony, ourselves.

• Author: Kaufman, John F.
• Position: Letters to the Editor

The Progressive's March issue treats the fall of Enron as further proof big corporations need greater legal restraint, as if corporate greed is merely a matter of government control. Not one author in the issue discussed the role of we the people in corporate-industrial looting of the land.

Microsoft, for example, did not get to be the business bully it is simply by trying to monopolize technology. All of us who bought computers made Bill Gates ridiculously rich and absurdly powerful. And our desire for cheap...