The system is inherently corrupt. You can go into it with the best intentions, a great moral compass, try to rein in the profiteering, but inevitably you are compromised. When a system answers first to corporations, also known as a dictatorship of the capital, it’s inevitable that you compromise yourself working for a system like that. And compromise is what led it to become that way in the first place. Which is part of why we say “you can’t reform capitalism.” Because you can’t in the long run. It’s why social democracies turn into neoliberal states. Because a system based on profiting, firstly, exploits the worker, and secondly, enables what becomes unsustainable greed, so any safeguards trying to hold back that unsustainable greed erode. In late stage capitalism, it is especially a joke to be a reformist. At this point, most reform is all very surface level. Real change comes from the masses, and they do that through revolt.
