Hyper financialism is just Goodhart's Law.

In that mindset there is nothing other than "make number go up".

All humanity, all taste, all meaning has been hollowed out.

The shortcut is the point, there is nothing else.

We made capitalism and politics so "efficient" that we Goodhart's-lawed ourselves in the face^[hg].

Hollowed out the system so badly that it broke itself.