Something similar happened around the fall of the Soviet Union. Yelstin gave every Russian citizen a certificate worth 10,000 rubbles to buy shares in state ow

Something similar happened around the fall of the Soviet Union. Yelstin gave every Russian citizen a certificate worth 10,000 rubbles to buy shares in state owned enterprises that were being privatized. Those with ready cash bought the certificates from those without, and this led to the current oligopoly.