rent-seeking Tangent, thanks. This is the phrase I was trying to conjure to mind earlier today in a discussion about the very topic of this thread. Ended up ta

rent-seeking Tangent, thanks. This is the phrase I was trying to conjure to mind earlier today in a discussion about the very topic of this thread. Ended up taking a long, exhaustive and context-laden road to get to my point; after which I had already lost an audience but so it goes. For the interested: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rent-seeking https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rent-seeking