Transnationals and other Biggest Players in the economic system are, to some extent, The State.  At a minimum, their interests are privileged over the Common Good -- which in the US has degenerated to meaning "the Right to make as much money as you can and keep it shall not be abridged."

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

If some oligarchy would be comfortably persistent, those shifting denominators would be a useful impression to make ;-) Just make the system stupendously rewarding to a few fresh masterminds from time to time.

... were front offices for something every bit as like (and every bit as unlike) a pirate's cabal as the corporate establishment that owns the polity in the United States.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.