Capital Markets
Technology has changed how wealth is created, concentrated, and controlled faster than most people have registered. Platforms extract value from attention, data, and human behavior at scale. Algorithmic systems manage trading, lending, and risk in ways that regulators are still catching up to. Labor markets are being restructured around gig platforms and automation in real time. Wealth inequality is at levels not seen since the Gilded Age, and the gap is widening. How money moves, who it flows toward, what happens to the people in the way, and what it means when a small number of individuals accumulate more resources than most nation-states.