I don't understand - if financial institutions spent half the energy they spend deceiving the public on actually stabilizing the markets, we wouldn't even be in this kind of situation. It's in the best interest of the powers that be to maintain a healthy population and productive economy.
What, then, is the element or combination of elements that leads to this kind of corruption? If wealth concentrates too narrowly, the system crashes, and wealth loses its functional value. So what was the purpose of accumulating it?
Think like a govt would
We want a war a new big one
In order to have a big war we need people to be so distraught that they need to fight to get out of the war.
First we make a threat
Second we make a financial armageddon
Third we make things so they feel attacked
We continually up these problems sometimes slightly other times earth shattering
We make it so bad even the most middleclass person knows something is up
The big war starts all sides willing to fight
Now we make money for war and destruction
The people die then people get sick of fighting
They reconsile their differences
They build a new world
The countries establish a new system the whole planet booms