I have the sense that you're dismissing my comment, but I'll elaborate: conspiracies, in the sense of 10 years ago, would imply that a group of people have deliberately "conspired" to achieve something, by colluding or executing some secret plan. Greed in itself is not a conspiracy, even if it was the true cause, it would just be human / corporate nature doing its thing. The emergent behavior is not the same as an actual conspiracy.

If all the captains of industry and elites had met at Bohemian grove and decided to deliberately coordinate their actions to gouge us, that would be a conspiracy. I didn't see any accusations like that leveled in the article.