Totally agree. I would have far preferred the bailout in 2008 to be put into an infrastructure program that put those classes of people to work instead of enriching the Wall Street crowd. But, no one asked me. Government should protect the unprotected and let everyone else fend for themselves. Instead it does the opposite these days, at least in America.

It's always done that, except for the few glory decades after the great depression (and the needed a world war to jumpstart)

> natural economic forces

There is nothing natural about the economy except in the unhelpful sense that everything is natural. All economies are regulated to a greater or lesser extent for the benefit of someone. The question is always: who is that someone.