Our current financial system has, at best, only a veneer of democratic oversight, evidenced by decades of deregulation and the inability of the government to se

Our current financial system has, at best, only a veneer of democratic oversight, evidenced by decades of deregulation and the inability of the government to sensibly reregulate it after the GFC. The banking system pretty much owns politicians cradle-to-grave - you need massive political donations to get elected, then lobbyists have super-access to politicians while in office, then politicians are offered lucrative revolving door jobs and board seats on leaving office.