I believe what they gain from it is investors. ... which ties back to the "It appears to be what the people want" problem. Granted, money may be a bad proxy fo

I believe what they gain from it is investors. ... which ties back to the "It appears to be what the people want" problem. Granted, money may be a bad proxy for what the people want (and we could have an entire conversation on the caustic effect of financial inequality of the stability of a functioning democracy). But to the extent that capitalism likes to imagine we can conflate the two... If it pulls in the dollars, it's the thing that's wanted, right?