No chairs for mere mortals when music stops

Over the last decade we have witnessed the results of effectively giving unfettered power to particular groups in the economy and how society as a whole is the worse for the experience.

The banks were allowed to get away with murder — proverbially speaking.

Investments in property, in particular, became enormous Ponzi schemes. Everyone was led to believe, stupidly in retrospect, that prices could only go up. Inevitably, the music stopped and there were no chairs left except for those who had perpetrated it and seen it coming.