[furbyhater]

I think the ponzi-scheme is the lie of eternal growth with finite resources (real estate included) combined with the "trickle-down" narrative. It's a pyramid scheme in the sense that it will collapse by its sheer weight before the "trickle-down" effect reaches a critical mass of the population, but those at the top will be very well-off by then anyway. It's maybe just a parameterization problem (wrong initiatives).