Financialization forces this insight to a new level. The financial system represents a phenomenal crucible of human rationality, creativity, imagination and collaboration … But, as with the systems and institutions that developed nuclear weapons, or the Nazis’ "final solution," these are derivatives of Enlightenment cognition and epistemology that have been turned against human interests and have been used to entrench and exacerbate systemic inequality and a deeply profound insecurity.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 267