The money people are clearly trying to get away with as much capitalism as they will be allowed to, but I don't know if I blame them for that, I mean it's their job? The nerds, though, are supposed to be smarter than that.
Totalitarianism is a system, what its intentions are does not actually matter to whether it is a good one. It produces harm simply because no one is smart enough to be safe at that scale. Thinking otherwise is dangerously arrogant, IMHO.