There is nothing wrong with the accumulation of wealth and power. Without that, no investment can be made in research, infrastructure, industry, etc. Capital formation cannot occur without capital accumulation, so to speak.

Till recently, there were natural checks and balances in society that prevented the growth in your income and wealth, if you did not serve the interests of society. If you made products people didn't like, you wouldn't sell. If you overcharged, the competition would catch up. If you mistreated your workers, you would lose good talent.

All of this has been lost in the last decade or so. In America as well as in India, big business has bought off the ruling class. In India it is more brazen than America. Politicians actually flaunt their corporate connections on their resume here. Where that leads us to is an unstable society where the interests of the few shadow the interests of the many.

The furore over epipen's price gouging isn't an isolated incident. People did not realise how and when pharmaceutical companies were handed over absolute control over their patient's lives. But as this malaise spreads from specialise drugs to more widely used medicine, people are rising up.

We will see a lot of opposition to change. The middle class has started demanding public transport. Distributed power generation is giving energy companies the chills. Artists are rebelling against cultural appropriation by media giants.

We live in interesting times. Except if you're poor. Then you're just being screwed over as part of a large global economic experiment.