Sounds like Synapse was a great money laundering schemme.

My conclusion is that all aggregators are bad. Economies of scale are bad.AI is bad. Anything that devalues humans is bad.

Everything has just become bad.

Reminds me of our blooming awareness of environmental pollution in the 70s.

Except instead of it being obvious, this 'financial pollution' is insidious, invisible.

Until small pockets of people are crippled. And that is why it persists-because enough people are spared this time and the inertia of the majority prevents action. Next month it will be another corruption exposed. Silicon valley bank, enron, Lehman, Salomon ....It just keeps going.