Not candy bars in this case, it's 24 songs. Just another example of how rentier interests are so overwhelmingly dominant in our society. There's a couple of interpretations of how this plays out.
One is that post industrial government is morphing into a system that exclusively protects and extends the interests of rentiers. Another is that the economic system grinds down, ossifies, rapidly destroying any entrepreneurial spirit. Regardless, it's not a good sign.
Another thing that really bugs me is the idea that most "financial innovation" is truly innovation in the entrepreneurial sense. It is, for the most part, innovations that yield new methods of gambling and predatory behavior (skirting regulation/propriety/morality) rather than innovation that creates net societal benefit. So, any attempt to lump the "risk takers" of Wall Street to the "risk takers" of entrepreneurs making new services/products is an egregious conflation of societal value and pure misdirection.
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