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Raver, I think we might be talking about different things.
My point is basically that alot of people nowadays are calling for revolution, they are calling to 'overthrow the rich', etc. I keep hearing it, for example, with the yellow vests in France. And hell, I see alot of messages calling for revolution against the rich, the "oligarchy" etc on this forum, though I am not targeting anyone in particular when I say this. They usually do this because their own economic or life situations are going nowhere, and people who are in frustrating situations usually look for scapegoats. I'm not trying to be demeaning towards these folks when I say this, frustration is human and everyone has a breaking point.
The problem with this revolutionary attitude (and no, I didn't put revolutionary in quotes because I do think we are living in times which could escalate into a revolution, though what form this will take is anyone's guess at this point), as I see it, is twofold. First, the rich did not contribute to the problems of the poor, contrary to popular belief. Material wealth is not limited like a pie where one having more means another having less; wealth is not a zero sum game. The reason so many people think it is is because they think there is a one to one correlation between raw materials, resources, and capital. So, they think, because there is such a gap between the wealth some rich people have and what they have, they think they have been 'robbed'. But that's not true, in fact they are not poorer because the rich are richer, they are merely poorer by comparison. But these misconceptions persist, and are used to justify an eat the rich mentality, where all that is bad is blamed on the rich, finance, the banking system, possibly the 'illuminati" or Jews. So they are calling for a revolution against people who haven't hurt them (even if the rich often don't care about them or understand them or their situations, the rich tend to talk down to them etc, this isnt the same thing as hurting them).
The other problem is tied to the first, which is that it's not going to help them (the poor) anyways. Blaming others for your probelms never does. Note that I'm talking about scapegoating the banking system, finance, etc, I'm not saying that nothing should change or that nothing could help those in crappy situations - certainly things can't (and really won't, no matter who tries what) stay status quo, but having an 'eat the rich' mentality is not going to help anyone, rich or poor.
As far as Jews being highly represented in the banking and finance systems, that's a fact, but since the blame that these things get is related to conspiracy theories, I don't really see the problem. There are crooks in the finance and banking systems, that much is true, but that's not all there is either, so comparing it to a the mafia or drug cartel is kind of inaccurate, imo.
Edit: Also, another problem I think is that the finance system is extremely complex and difficult for the average Joe on the street to grasp. First rule of human nature: we condemn what we don't understand. Everyone loves a company like Apple, for example, because they can see the things it produces, but they hate the stock exchange that makes it possible for a company like Apple to operate on a global scale. Therefore, since we don't understand how it works, we imagine some kind of shadowy cabal of world leaders all performing human sacrifices to the Christian devil (or whatever works in the collective imagination nowadays) in the name of fucking over "the little guy", the average Joe on the street who imagines himself a victim of Jews and of the dark mandates of the banking and financial system.