I’m not talking about conspiracy theories, just mundane things like like urban planning, real estate and industry lobbying, choices about policing and who makes

I’m not talking about conspiracy theories, just mundane things like like urban planning, real estate and industry lobbying, choices about policing and who makes them, I mean just check how many members of your local city council were funded by the chamber of commerce. There’s no conspiracy, it’s all done right out in the open. Why do we drive cars instead of taking mass transit everywhere? Because the big auto companies lobbied to make it that way. Why do real estate prices keep on rising? Because the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac interfere with loan pricing. You don’t think all this stuff just happens, do you? Most of the laws governing the financial sector were directly written by lobbyists working in that sector. Most of the new technology, the basic research that happens, is funded by the federal government. And then handed off to corporations in the private sector who happen to fund political campaigns. It’s not some secretive cabal or some silly thing like that. It’s just how business is done. The whole economy is like that. Somebody made each choice. It was somebody who had a stake in the outcome, somebody with money.