The profit motive & margins fund lobbyists and political campaigns to change policies that absolutely drive these market changes.
We could choose to have anti-trust measures with teeth. We could choose to tax assets. We could have progressive corporate taxes to encourage smaller company sizes and more public transparency. There are so many things we could choose, but the ones that we do choose are the ones that shareholders lobby into place to generate ROI.
This is either a feature or a bug, depending on whether your income flows through line 1 or line 7 of your 1040.
We could choose to have anti-trust measures with teeth. We could choose to tax assets. We could have progressive corporate taxes to encourage smaller company sizes and more public transparency. There are so many things we could choose, but the ones that we do choose are the ones that shareholders lobby into place to generate ROI.
This is either a feature or a bug, depending on whether your income flows through line 1 or line 7 of your 1040.