"Corporations are at least somewhat constrained by the need to actually provide some service that is useful to people. Exxon provides energy, McDonald’s provides food, etc. The exception to this seems to be the financial industry. These institutions consume vast amounts of wealth and intelligence to essentially no human end."
Well, no. Banks provide liquidity, investment opportunity, and loans. Just like McDonald's, there is a cost to this service, and the negatives of this cost may or may not be worth the "positive constraint" but to say there is no positive constraint is utterly rediculous.
"Of all human institutions, these seem the most parasitical and dangerous."
What of those institutions that wage wars and actually people killed?
> What of those institutions that wage wars and actually people killed?
keep in mind that these are the same institutions that at some point saved the rest of the European jews, the rest of the European gays, the rest of the European gypsies, the rest of the European communists, mentally or physically disabled etc.
Well, no. Banks provide liquidity, investment opportunity, and loans. Just like McDonald's, there is a cost to this service, and the negatives of this cost may or may not be worth the "positive constraint" but to say there is no positive constraint is utterly rediculous.
"Of all human institutions, these seem the most parasitical and dangerous."
What of those institutions that wage wars and actually people killed?