Outside the confines of sport, we have to account for a non-exhaustive list of factors that includes (i) intellectual property at a much greater scale as it permeates and penetrates every aspect of economic activity, (ii) de facto oligopolistic markets or even shadow monopolies underpinned—and enabled—by legal barriers to entry, (iii) a global order of tax havens or otherwise favourable jurisdictions for the uber-rich to siphon their profits to in order to avoid taxation and erode their tax base (taxable material/wealth), (iv) so-called “incentives” and tax breaks provided by the state which typically favour a small minority of beneficiaries, (v) the favourable institutionalised position of certain corporations, such as mega-banks which are close to the source of practically free new…