Rules, in that case, define the game and they actually may have evolved by natural selection over time into what they are now.
But I think you misunderstood me somewhere… I’m for a mild socialist style like what the US has now except with an FDR-style tax structure because there has to be a mechanism to get the money back to the bottom so it can flow up again. The way it is now, money only goes up, leaving the bottom going into debt in order to replenish the supply of money at the bottom. Truly, most of the people paying taxes should not be taxed because it makes no sense to redistribute money back into the same class. The purpose of taxation is the engineering of an economy. But people don’t want to hear that because they want everything to be “fair” and don’t realize the government could print its own money in unlimited quantities and therefore doesn’t need taxes at all. If anyone doubts that, just look at what the fed, ecb, boe, and particularly the boj and snb have been doing lately… only the money is going straight to the rich, bypassing the poor. I mean, the SNB is a major shareholder of Apple, for crying out loud! They printed Francs then gave them to Apple shareholders when they took possession of the shares. The BOJ is steadily buying japanese ETFs until it owns the entire market, it seems. Again, money is going straight to the rich. They should launch a Universal Basic Income (UBI) so that the money goes more towards the bottom instead of printing yen to buy stocks. That’s why those idiots never got the inflation they’ve been targeting for the last 30 years. If one of those banks ever try UBI, they’ll have more inflation than they could believe as the printed money is quickly put to work in the economy, bidding prices up through increased demand. Giving money to Goldman Sachs doesn’t do shit… except increase the wealth divide. But the reaganites claim Goldman will lend the money out to businesses. Baloney! They will put it on deposit at the fed drawing interest. Besides, loans are dirt cheap and banks are full of cash and do not need more to lend.