This entire discussion boils down to (since we're resorting to caricatures):

1.) The poor are stupid, and lazy.
2.) So it's morally okay to take their stuff.
3) If they don't like it they can cash in their IRAs and start their own business.

You are right about one thing, though...

"...putting a corrupted government bureaucracy in charge of a corrupted business bureaucracy...they end up shaking hands and splitting the loot." Which is my whole point. Everyone is out for what they can get, at everyone else's expense. That is the story of society, and it's the game we all have to play because its the only game in town, no matter what set of rules you're playing by. I can live with that, just like I can live with the fact that we all have to die sometime. But just because the guy calls himself an entrepreneur doesn't mean you can leave your wallet on the desk.

But by the way, are Printer's Inc and the Mongolians still open? The ones on California St in Mtn View? There used to be a Printer's Inc in Palo Alto, too, and Kepler's in Menlo Park--far superior to the big national chain bookstores.