Pfft, ive been arguing with economics asses about that for years >.<
Money isnt the only motivator. And its sad cause they generally use it to justify their exhorbitant fees in banking and business. (Because they only enter it with a love for money, not for the work that they do)
The problem is that so much of modern economic theory is essentially... that. Used to justify super wages and golden parachutes, cutting taxes, cutting welfare.... you name it.
Its so sad.
The system is beholden to people with no morality but the drive for wealth. And in the end, wealth begins to pool around them, and get sucked from society at large.
And whats worst of all is that its the tax payers and average people that suffer. We got rid of tariffs. Yay! Free markets! Now we have to pay companies all over the world to build offices and plants here, we have to give them concessions and tax breaks and near 0% annual tax bills. The state went from being served to being the servant of these huge corporations and these utterly idiotic hive minded simpletons who are stuck so far up ayn rands ass they actually read all of Atlas Shrugged and pronounce Ayn properly. AND THOUGHT IT WAS INSIGHTFUL.
Economics has gone from a part of life to life itself. The state has to be structered to serve this economic mythical deity who is as skittish as a wild boar, lest he wander off and we lose his golden turd pile. Instead of economics simply being an enabler, something to be controlled just like any other process that is man made, it has become what life itself, government, everything is centered around.
Oh god im ranting >_<
Also fuck the 'big 4' banks who have us all by the balls and twist at will. nationalise them! Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!