>That's not a flip side: it's the prisoner's dilemma. True. Having the retirement funds of gen-pop tied to the wellbeing of some unscrupulous mega-corps, leads

>That's not a flip side: it's the prisoner's dilemma. True. Having the retirement funds of gen-pop tied to the wellbeing of some unscrupulous mega-corps, leads to a prisoner's dilemma where governments and gen-pop are incentivized to ignore or even support the exploitation, societal damage and misbehavior of such "too big to fail" entities. It becomes a form of mutually assured destruction: "you can regulate or fine us Uncle Sam, but you'll also be hurting the retirements of your citizens; are you sure you want to do that?"