The abstraction of individual contributions is problematic when you end up with huge swathes of rent extraction justified by capitalist meritocracy. As a societ

The abstraction of individual contributions is problematic when you end up with huge swathes of rent extraction justified by capitalist meritocracy. As a society, we don't need so many (any?) of our best and brightest wrangling zero-sum financial algorithms, yet that's where we are. These very clever people basking in their smug wealth whilst the poors outside actually dig up the streets to repair the water mains or produce the food they eat.