Financialization requires the money to be used "productively" instead of sitting in reserves waiting. Everyone wants a higher stock price and/or dividends inste

Financialization requires the money to be used "productively" instead of sitting in reserves waiting. Everyone wants a higher stock price and/or dividends instead of long term stability. I recently came across a saying that summed it up well: "MBAs think companies make money. Companies make shoes." When you abstract the details away again and again and again, eventually you forget that the details exist and matter.