—“Curt , why won’t they let us have economic and cultural systems that are specific to the various cultures around the world? Why the obsession to force one system on differing people, many whom aren’t adept to a foreign survival strategy? Why not let many flowers bloom?”—Ankit Patel?

Exactly. You know why? Where religion was the excuse for pursuing power in the past, morality the excuse for pursuing power after that, economics has been the excuse for pursuing power since marx.