I have this feeling that things are a lot more broken than it looks like, in particular related to how to become rich. We know that making business with the government has always been a huge advantage, but I suspect that the disparity is becoming so big between the way government price things and normal human does, that the only way to get wealthy is to serve the government or businesses that serve the government. At first I just had a vague sense of what it could be, but I think it may have to do with government guiding the profit part of transactions. My gut is telling me something like: "normal people will value things you sell for a X price and you will make Y profit, but that profit will never make you wealthy because someone is making Y+9000 of profit thanks to the government, and will drive up the price of things that keeps you rich". I know I'm reasoning by gut here, but it's like if there is a huge amount of money somewhere that came into existence due to the government and are not influencing prices of most common things consumers buy because the rich are not interested in spending money there, but also are still money that will have these characteristics: >are in existence >can be spent in tools, machines, services, etc for production So, imagine Fair Business (FB) VS Crony Business (CB). They both work in the same industry but one serves the government and the other don't. Crony business will make the price of machinery, tools, services, used by both rise. This could be even more worrying with services is related to government, like obligatory consultancies and bureaucratic fees. That's the exent of my thinking. It's just a feeling I have had for some time, trying to point it somewhere, maybe it's nothing maybe it's something, please help me. >pic unrelated, title of the article is "what if we privatize whales too?"