And of course, events have from time to time been rigged as a result.
My point is in relation to the allocation of resources: nothing more, and nothing less. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
your comment just triggered mine, s'all.
orthogonal... it's (rarely?) the creators/producers or the purchasers who game systems.
it starts with the intermediaries, which then become amenable to betting forces, which if they remained a commentary would be just dubious, but when they start to push events things are f'ed up bigtime. where would the the betters access the chain of events if not through the said intermediaries?
please tell me i'm full of it if that's the case. it just appears that way to me, ignorant wally that i am :) ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~