What’s that? You mean they took gambling addicts and gave them control of humanities efforts at scale? It’s all gone wrong? Shocking! Why, a minority of global power brokers have NEVER, in the history of humanity, used their sway over the masses to abuse their trust.

Most financial crimes are still just plain old “paper cons”. They lie on the paperwork.

At least in the US, regulatory agencies are so underfunded or had their mission altered such that “paper cons” happen constantly.

Panama Papers, many of Trumps tax dodge schemes (among others, calling him out because of viz, all those guys “do it”) etc

All very obvious, well known financial schemes.

Basically the origin of the word privilege comes from Latin “privy lege” ... “privileged by the law”.

Humanity is still ruled by ruthless tribalists looking to conquer the globe.

Ain’t nothing changed about it except the literal “who”, and sound forms and visual glyphs used to describe. We use a lot less Latin and romantic notions of higher powers in the sky, but still kowtow to hierarchy based upon scientific bullshit, convincing people “THESE annotations of the numbers are it, boy howdy! We def got IT right this generation! Sorry about rocket cars, but our finance scheme numbers keep going up so we did it!”

Still biologically motivated to the same ends.