@ReverendMoose oh absolutely! Most of us seem to think that this is inevitable simply because we got here, like we couldn’t have gone another way at some point over the last 100 years. Weirdly this passage from Atlas Shrugged has the best description of this current stage of capitalism and the hopelessness it brings.
Neoliberalism brought the idea that managed economies are bad, but just switched it from the government to the banks as to who would manage the economy