[andrekandre]

  > we are in the financialization and rent-seeker world now

sometimes i wonder if this is what happens when organic growth stops/slows; when (for lack of a better word) desperate people just start looking for any alternative to keep the growth train running...

[vkou]

It's just what happens when you give the rich all the political power in your society.

All of them come from the 'make money from other people's labour' background, and they will, of course, use that political power to optimize that wealth extraction.