I've found  a good source to quote from when I don't have anything to say here. The Multinational Monitor is serializing portions of Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-Day Iniquity by Edward Alsworth Ross on the 100-year anniversary of its publication. The book "identifies the ways in which the industrial economy had transformed the capacity to do harm to others." Basically, "modern sins are impersonal," Ross says. Businessmen are removed from the damage their businesses do, and they are well respected in society. Here's a sample:

Our iniquity is wireless, and we know not whose withers are wrung by it. The hurt passes into that vague mass, the "public," and is there lost to view. Hence it does not take a Borgia to knead "chalk and alum and plaster" into the loaf, seeing one cannot know just who will eat that loaf, or what gripe it will give him. The purveyor of spurious life-preservers need not be a Cain. The owner of rotten tenement houses, whose "pull" enables him to ignore the orders of the health department, foredooms babies, it is true, but for all that he is no Herod.

Often there are no victims. If the crazy hulk sent out for "just one more trip" meets with fair weather, all is well.

For "loaf," think of the meat coming out of the processing plant in California that was processing "downer" (possibly sick) cows. For "spurious life preservers," think of the inadequate body armor and provided to our troops in Iraq. For "owner of rotten tenement houses, whose 'pull' enables him to ignore the orders of the health department," think of the owner of the mine that collapsed in Utah last year when miners were told to use a forbidden mining technique. For "the crazy hulk sent out for 'just one more trip,'" think of Southwest Airlines not doing the inspections it was supposed to do.

Funny—even though everything in this 100-year-old book rings true while I'm reading it, I'm surprised at how easy it was for me to come up with a modern-day example to match each of Ross's examples. That's regrettable.