The state's job description changed from 'protecting the public' to 'maintaining market confidence' at all costs, creating a system where we are essentially funding our own marginalization through our deposits and labor.
I believe the modern economic system is structurally rigged in favor of powerful institutions like banks, governments, and large corporations, which consolidate power through mechanisms such as deposits and financial control while remaining protected from collective pushback because society is too polarized to act in unity. High individualism, combined with fear and greed, prevents people from organizing for meaningful change, unintentionally reinforcing the dominance of those already in power.


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Lena: Miles, have you ever stopped to wonder why, despite all our technological marvels, the average American's inflation-adjusted wages are basically stuck where they were 60 years ago? It feels like we’re running on a treadmill that’s been rigged to speed up while we stay in place.
Miles: It’s a heavy thought, right? Especially when you realize that while most people are struggling to cover a car breakdown, just three individuals in the U.S. hold as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of the entire population. It makes you ask: is this just the natural "law of the market," or are the rules of the game being rewritten behind the scenes?
Lena: Exactly! And if the system is designed to favor a small "inherited plutocracy," why aren't we all banding together to change it? Is it our own individualism—or maybe a cycle of fear and greed—that keeps us polarized and silent?
Miles: That’s the puzzle we’re solving today. Let’s explore how this feedback loop between economic and political power actually functions.