Well, if money = power, this centralization you speak of seems to be quite baked into the system, doesn't it? I read the situation quite differently. As the economic (and especially monetary) paradigm we've been operating under for the last few hundred years once again tears itself apart, the measures undertaken to keep the whole thing together can't help but become ever more extreme - and absurd, really. Maybe unleashing capital globally in the manner we've seen since the 80s wasn't such a smart move, after all. This pattern of straw fire boom (and extreme consolidation of wealth) followed by catastrophic bust certainly isn't anything new. Usually, a partial reset has been achieved through big wars. Kind of hard to pull off without the risk of things spiraling way out of control nowadays, though - the option clearly seems to be on the table as far as I can tell from following the daily news. Would be quite interesting to see how it plays out this time. Hell, might even lead to some positive change (New deal style) after all. Unfortunately, I've been on a bit of a climate change information binge for the last few days. Having read a lot and listened to quite competent people in the field describing their troubles dealing with the certainty of impending cataclysmic disaster, I'm not sure that the whole monetary circus really matters all that much, anymore.This is what happens when power becomes too centralized.