@cstross There's this sense in which the point of taking over governments for the global right-wing conspiracy is to fund taking over other governments.

Looting a sovereign entity is, after all, about the most profitable thing you can do in one-lifetime time frames.

@darkling Pretty much, yes.

Only with greater scope; private equity firms don't have the ability of a sovereign to make things legal.

(You can view everything since 1500 as a process of enclosure and not be hugely wrong in terms of economic history. Which is a detached way of saying "farming human lifespan".)

@cstross