Economic parasitism

“Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending, or the taxation of labor.”
- John Ruskin

Law

... "money" (nomisma) [...] exists not by nature but by law (nomos)

• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 350 B.C.E

Politics

I get the impression sometimes that most politicians still have no idea of how much they are already controlled by the financial markets and are even ruled by them.

Hans Tietmeyer, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank), Davos 1996