I’ve worked a lot in finance - what finance does is morph, skew, re-shape and alter itself to achieve maximal profits and wealth growth for capital holders. Marx was absolutely right, not a shadow of a doubt.
It’s always been that way, and always will.
Laws, standards, conventions, all of that - it all gets evaporated by the aggressive and bullying thrust of the psychopaths who decide wealth is their metric (and since they’re mostly narcissistic, there you have it - like Trump, they need the glitz and glam and showiness, they need it like Gollum needs the ring).
These people are like vampire mist - they find the cracks, the inevitable gaps, of well-meaning people, and exploit them mercilessly.
It’s a war.
But it’s a winnable war. The logic is sitting right in the middle of the problem, staring out at us patiently. If you remove the ability of money to concentrate, or to network other money with a hierarchy reaching up to the psychopath, it cannot accumulate as much.
This can all be done free market style. The socio/psychopaths won’t see it coming.
People Power, dude. I’m working on it!
