You’re lying to yourself kid. They’re doing what they’re doing because it works. You don’t like it because you’re not getting any. You say “corrupt” and yet you’re the one confused.

There is no once and for all solution for anything. Here’s the secret: the whole universe is falling apart and the only thing keeping anything together is someone/something paying for it.

You don’t need the whole pie. You might survive from the crumbs of a thousand pies.

You could read P.T. Barnum’s “The Art of Money Getting” and “The Richest Man in Babylon” to give you some insight into the classics. None of this will help your desperate sense of immediacy.