That's neoliberalism, baby. You'll see the same pattern with healthcare, water, waste, media, energy, etc; every common good is being scooped up as much as pos

That's neoliberalism, baby. You'll see the same pattern with healthcare, water, waste, media, energy, etc; every common good is being scooped up as much as possible by private interests. The ultra-wealthy have a sophisticated playbook for doing this which maximises profit at the expense of the vast majority of the population. It's international. A complicit media owned by the same private interests acts like this is all a big mystery, and any individual or group that gets too effective at making this plain is systematically irrelevanced.