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They had a much more fundamental problem with the market: greed. Market motives were held to be inherently corrupt. The moment that greed was validated and unlimited profit was considered a perfectly viable end in itself, this political, magical element became a genuine problem, because it meant that even those actors--the brokers, stock-jobbers, traders--who effectively made the system run had no convincing loyalty to anything, even to the system itself.