Well, you're talking about banks, financialization, and the big economic picture. I'm talking here specifically about the art market. I assume you'd say the state of the shadow banking system overrides everything else. My assumption was that the art market is relatively free and democratized in that the masses' interests largely decide which artist comes out on top and which ones are ignored. I'm sure nepotism is involved too, so there's no such thing as a perfectly free and fair market.

Much of what you said is over my head. I don't entirely understand your solution to the problem. Are you talking about a universal basic income, supplied by banks?

In any case, I doubt the solution could be purely economic; rather, it has to be psychological and existential. Any tinkering of the economy to help out the majority of people in the long run, while leaving in place a minority's penchant for turning into sociopathic predators and parasites will ensure that that minority finds a new way to exploit the slave morality and other weaknesses of the majority. Corrupt rulers end up in charge regardless of whether the system is feudalistic, monarchical, fascistic, capitalistic, democratic, or communistic. The revolution has to happen from within or we'll let the worst of us lead us all into an abyss.