[codingwagie]

Financial engineering is why people are poor. They are literally competing for goods and services with investment firms.

[aspenmayer]

Meritocracy looks a bit different when individuals standing alone are expected to go toe to toe with multi-industry corporate conglomerates and their franchisees.

[93po]

and when society is structured so that the people/orgs with lots of resources have unfair advantage over those who don't (e.g. monopoly powers)