Perhaps this blog post might clear that up. This guy who "authored an influential study" was a Stanford psych and law professor knew people and had a team. What does gvt do anyway other than the bidding of the networks of people running it? https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/trade-and-peace/ …
People use the phrase "late stage capitalism" - consciously or not using an incorrect Marxist framework. In contrast "late stage democracy" is very real. Late stage democratic governments act less and less in anything that could be described as its own interests.
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Earlier democratic governments can actually get people to work for the benefit of some institution - late stage ones are fully infested by networks of people working their own interests. In the US the networks are sophisticated and cohere around an *ideology*.
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Of course that doesn't mean that lots of loot doesn't get thrown around - it does - but the money is more "burning down the BestBuy to loot some flat screens". Chump change compared to what's being destroyed.
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