The facility with which people allow themselves to continue to be pawns in the game of power, goaded on by sects of various religions against each other and often in the name of Almighty God, continues to amaze me. This brings me to the other sort of mysticism that people are fooled by, that of high finance. Finance, of course, has little to do with economics. Finance is the means by which people are able to live off the people who create real wealth by the application of labour power to materials. Economics should be the management of common resources and the application of said labour power to those resources.
Finance creates unreasonable demands which are generated by the 'advertising industry'.
There are so many activities that are described by the misnomer 'industry'. The arms industry, I suppose, could be described as the death industry, except that it is the dealers of death that pay and finance the activity not the recipients or consumers. The only exception to this is of course the nuclear arms industry, which once consumed will make an end to all consumers, of both these products and any other products the consumer society produces. Finance has largely put an end to useful activity satisfying the social needs of the majority of people. It is an irrational force like religion.