> who are pushing things in dumb directions because their careers and wealth are tied to what they do for work so they advocated for those things to be advanced to the point of absurdity and everyone on their coat tails cheers for it because they benefit too.

Could you give a concrete example of what you're describing there?

> They're positioned to make money hand over fist no matter how things go.

This is why they tend to move toward other things, like ... dismantling the US government.