Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry — How Rigged Incentives Reward Extraction
What happens when an economy becomes better at rewarding the extraction of value than the creation of it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry by Dylan Ratigan as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates the institutional incentives that Ratigan argues can transform productive capitalism into what he calls “extractionism.”
Ratigan’s target is not wealth itself. His distinction is between making money by creating useful goods, services…
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