banking and payments have controlled the world from the shadows effectively for 2k years. This was always acceptable. What is not acceptable is to issue debt, and then sabotage the endeavors the debt is financing. The explorers and tradesmen, through the years, have mostly been a valiant lot, deserving of their riches, since they took great risks. The are who created the secret societies, and likely today's prevalent religions. Fine. However over the span of 100 generations or so they have become soft, and allowed themselves to be infiltrated and undermined by a weakly, measly, sickly, power-hungry lot entirely void of valor and completely undeserving of any riches or power whatsoever.