IIM graduates are given 1 and 2 crore salary not for doubling the daily wages of 30 crore Indians getting 12 or 20 Rs a day. These highest salaries are given to an MBA to devise more and more involved strategies by which 'his/her' employer will be able to outwit the employer of other MBA who is offered 80 lakhs.
In Mongolia there is a game the horse riders play. They kill a goat and toss the carcass on their spear heads. After hours of humiliation of the dead goat a winner is declared to the joy of all.
Rules of economics as all other Intense Human Endeavour allow for end less entanglements. The pattern is simple. A new activity gives low output initially during invention or break-in period. The pioneers may have toiled for a nobler goal. As it starts showing a promise, the pioneers are shunted off / bought over or plain ignored and more 'intelligent' agents take over the game.
They use same ad-lines (those of pioneers who started it), to sell the concept to guilliable population, but internally ( always) set a different agenda. That 'secret element' is essence of all such phenomenon, and works like the force multiplier for 'entaglement' machine. Growth of 'parasites' at the cost of host is one example. All intellectuals are invariably the parasites. But it is intended that they be symbiotic helping the 'host' much more than themselves. A economic theory is needed which will liberate humanity from rut without harming
