The papers/articles you quoted actually strengthen my argument. The information asymmetry is also about education/comprehension of complex concepts and rules of operating. Vast majority of humans participating in the economy (including a lot of smart techies) don't have sufficient access or strong enough aptitude/interest to seek out and learn such things to make material difference to their decisions. Instead they depend on psychological shortcuts to make "poor" decisions that keeps them lower in that information/power hierarchy. The game theory aspect of it is this – it is in in the best interest of the few to maintain/reinforce the mechanisms at play to keep the masses blissfully ignorant and continue to be dependant on those psychological shortcuts. If more and more people become conscious of it and start to "squeeze" the value in the middle of the value-chain, then the value accruing to the people at the top significantly reduces. Usually when that happens, powerful people change the rules of the game to reintroduce more information asymmetry again.