>A few very clever Dicks are placing the pieces on the chess board, entitling them to more!

Precisely. And the average person is just a pawn in the game, hoping to survive, but ultimately will be sacrificed.

The current economy and the systems that keep it this way are fundamentally broken, but the only way out of it is to take responsibility for ourselves, but that requires a little more economic literacy than people currently have. The vast majority still believe that they will be looked after by governments - left right, up, down  -they will never act in the best interest of the people.