Flawed capitalism - lobbying and corporatocracy

Capitalism, which allows money to flow and be used without constraint, has led bankers to put money into where they get the 'greatest apparent return' ...

and unfortunately these places turn out to be ones where a community with any real moral code/values would not want it to go  ... e.g. 'money for nothing' schemes/scams ... and places where people can be exploited the most.

One might think in a capitalist system that any 'money for nothing' scam would quickly and naturally collapse, but this does not happen when the excessive profits generated are 're-invested' into lobbying Governments and policy makers to gain support/favour and put them into a position where their scam can continue to flourish and/or 'cannot' fail (e.g. as the Banksters did, and continue to do, hence the bailouts and continual pressure to water down any regulation).

The problem with capitalism is that money/wealth is naturally directed towards influencing those in power, to maintain/ further their position to exploit markets. For instance this occurred with banks persuading the Government to remove house prices from UK inflation figures, which created the house price boom (as interest rates would not longer have to increase due to a rise in inflation) and saw house prices triple in a decade.  

Some people argue that the problems we are now seeing are more to do with having a Corporatocracy rather than Capitalism, as corporations use money to unduly influence and control politicians in order to introduce/change rules in their favour (e.g. by relaxing financial regulations, changing food, health and energy policies ...).

Indeed before entering office David Cameron himself highlighted that Lobbying would be the next big scandal (post the scandal relating to politicians and the media), but on entering office he decided not just ignore it but to ensure that he benefited from it!

Lobbying is indeed a big scandal (e.g. banks 'invested' £100m into lobbying last year), but Capitalism creates an environment where a Corporatocracy can thrive, and creates many more problems besides (e.g. the movement of money to exploit people to the maximum, and the ability to move any wealth to tax havens in order to avoid paying any tax etc). 

Corporatocracy is indeed a big problem, but it only thrives due to the flawed and corrupt nature of capitalism.