Exactly.
All these guys are scions of the affluent, doing the bidding of the affluent. They all talk blithely about things like "wealth creation", and never about where it goes. The answer of course being that it goes to the businessmen / investors who are funding them to produce this stuff, and fuck everyone else. They literally could not care less.
The Adam Smith institute, for instance, is full of very intelligent people blunting their own ability to be intelligent. The Adam Smith Institute looks at all manner of economic and social issues, and then states the best thing to do is privatise, deregulate and/or reduce taxes. Every problem in the world they ever look at is to be solved by privatisation, deregulation and reduced taxation. When you know what the conclusion is to anything they ever write, you know they just make up the argument to fit the conclusion. If privatisation, deregulation and reduced taxation brought a country into social collapse and upheaval, they'd still be there telling everyone the answer was privatisation, deregulation and reduced taxation: they'd just be saying that either the country didn't do enough or somehow did it wrongly.
The Adam Smith Institute says it cares about poverty and how tragic poverty is and how great it would be to get everyone out of poverty, but mostly spends its time dissing the efforts of organisations that look at poverty, and insisting that only its very narrow concept of poverty is what counts. Naturally, poverty is to be solved by privatisation, deregulation, and reduced taxation. It's just unfortunate to the Adam Smith Institute that these muddle-headed charities and governments think that poverty can be resolved by trying to improve the incomes of, or give benefits to, poor people.
