It's also very advantageous for favoring politically well connected players in an economy and engaging in economic warfare. As far as conspiracy theories go, i

It's also very advantageous for favoring politically well connected players in an economy and engaging in economic warfare. As far as conspiracy theories go, it depends on who you're talking about. It also depends on the conspiracy theory. Conspiracies do exist; the phrase "conspiracy theory" has of late been used as an effective tool to dismiss what used to be called investigative journalism or social criticism. Anyone advancing a criticism of the social order or putting forward the outrageous idea that powerful people might organize to maintain their power is a "conspiracy theorist." Obviously powerful people are rational, egoless, dispassionate technocrats and are only concerned with the public interest. All praise the great steersmen!