Second, because there is sin and virtue in the system itself to which we are all subject.

FORBES: Fed Has Your Currency And Wants Your Mind

One virtue of a private system is that competition allows choice and experimentation.

WSJ: Of NICE and Men

Another perceived virtue of the current system is that it arguably produces a team at the top of its game.

WSJ: Menu

Why would a system that rewards virtue and punishes sin be so frustratingly unreliable?

FORBES: Fed Has Your Currency And Wants Your Mind

With the recession hitting Medicaid outcomes have been getting better by virtue of healthier people in the system (due to rising unemployment from 2007 to 2011) and by more practices and insurers realizing that service delivery and outcomes needed to get better.

FORBES: How Medicaid Harms the Poor: A Counter-Rebuttal, Part III

Yes, dear reader, it is a system that punishes sin and rewards virtue.

FORBES: Fed Has Your Currency And Wants Your Mind

The great virtue of cap and trade is that the system can be taken directly to the targeted emission reductions.

ECONOMIST: Carbon tax or trade?

Another virtue: Although America has had numerous third parties, the current system invariably sees one of the major parties in one way or another co-opting issues that third parties advocate.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Another virtue: While America has had numerous third parties, the current system invariably sees one of the major parties co-opting, in one way or another, issues that third parties advocate.

FORBES: Dumb, Destructive Move

The book is especially obtuse when Koch describes his system for grading employees, a four-box "virtue and talents matrix" that balances "values and beliefs" against the skills needed to run the business.

FORBES: Koch's Laws