Common Corporate confusion:

I often hear people talking about is that it is all about the money. I think this is a false premise. They don't care about the money.

You certainly do "follow the money" (see Panama Papers), but what if a sociopath doesn't care about money (like Joker in The Dark Knight who burned billions) or they can just print more money as needed (federal reserve)? What I see is money used as a means to control natural resources such as land, housing, food, DNA, minerals, water and even air. All tangible assets are the objective. Once these Hedge Funds/Central Banks acquire so much money, it becomes meaningless to them, merely a means to an end.

Look at how the Big Box stores take massive losses to gain market share control. Apply that to finite, hard resources and you get my drift.

Something I have learned regarding dealings with sociopaths is that when you dismiss something as crazy/illogical/stupid you often do not know their endgame due to an expectation for them to behave according to shared morals and values. Once you begin to grasp what motivates them, you can begin to predict their actions with ease. It really is just basic criminal profiling (think Criminal Minds).

Think Hedge funds:

• Broken by Design (Hegelian Dialectics or exploitive, money-laundering schemes)

• Jettison Management style (surround yourself with expendable patsies to take the fall)

Holdings companies

When new companies are acquired the employees often complain and have unrealistic expectations:

1. Being a Superstar (single point of failure SME experts) means you won't be RIFfed. You are actually more likely to be gotten rid of, as you aren't integrated as a cog in the company and will cause problems later. Same for internal feifdoms in the company.

2. They are stupidly running the business into the ground/losing customers. Your company may have been selected to dump all the holdings company bad debt for a year into this company and provide tax write offs for profits from other companies being held. This certainly applies to DEI/ESG and often to supposed competitors, that are both owned by the same holdings company (Bud Light? Target?).

See also: Revolving Door between industry and oversight