I saw the movie There Will Be Blood this weekend - a fine history of the beginnings of the oil industry in California, cloaked in a character study of the unpleasant Daniel Plainfield. I later realized Daniel was presented as a metaphor of the corporation, especially an oil corporation - no care for humanity, totally focused on short-term profit, to the point of self-destruction. Based on Upton Sinclair's book Oil!.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil!
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