I dont think this has anything to do with standardized testing, Phil, which is what i was responding to. Corporate profit maximizing is no different than what you find in Adam Smith. Modern technology though has had a huge effect on centralizing economic institutions and creating oligarchies and virtual monopolies, in fact the corporate barons justified a lot of their monopolistic behavior on just that fact. It's been on and off bouts with state regulation ever since. I guess you need to take this up with virtually every American administration since when, whether Dem or GOP. I guess you could say the Marx was right, after all. He condemned it. David Hume and many others have praised it.