This is my gut feeling about a lot of activity going on in modern corporations. Private equity firms, for example, have been historically blamed for a lot of once great engineering companies in the UK being combined into a bloated mess of activities - which ends up ultimately sacrificing competitiveness.

However I feel like your average voter shaking my fist angrily a bankers sometimes when trying to put it into words (I don't honestly have a lot of insight on how it all works).

Have you got any good book/essay recommendations on over-financialisation?