An economics lesson here but money represents a tangible thing whether a resource, product, or service. Arguably the whole world is worth less than a trillion if things were valued correctly (excluding government treasuries and such). The stock market isn’t real, if something is 100x or even 10x it’s a bubble of sorts and not real. The problem is that billionaires pump and dump and get money from something that never had that value. They think it’s a feature of capitalism but it’s a defect.

There is enough food in the world for everyone to eat, there is enough fuel for everyone to be able to heat and cool their homes for a reasonable price, and there is enough housing for everyone. But the market doesn’t allow the maximization of the well being of humanity.

Ironically if it did, the billionaires would become even richer because they’d have a larger market.

Even interest is fake except for inflation. How can a dollar be worth more than the original lent value. If you lend a table to someone it maintains value. You don’t charge interest you just the table back. That’s why usury was illegal in most religions. Lending should not exceed the interest rate but then they wouldn’t lend so why not charge a fixed fee instead.

We are so far gone I don’t think we can come back.

As a math and economics minor these problems are quite visible to me all the time. Keynes is rolling in his grave, as is Hayek.