> the scam really only works if the plebs think that they are competent and the only ones who can save us from financial turmoil No, not at all. The "scam" works because, by function, everyone who uses US dollars is a debt slave to a private central bank, because said bank issues all currency **at interest**. That means every single citizen, politician, corporation, etc. are in debt to the same entity. You cannot escape the perpetual debt slavery without some kind of mass revolution. This is why the founding fathers of the USA were willing to start a war to escape King George III's "Curreny Act" which would have force the colonists to abandon their state issued currency and instead use printed bank notes, issued by a private bank, AT INTEREST. This is hopeless debt slavery and they knew it.