I think the financial crisis taught us that clearly enough. Going on some of the surprised reactions from senior bankers they all appear locked away in their bubbles just as securely as any post-apocalypse bunker.

Looking at politics around the world it seems like the world is slowly demonstrating that we learned nothing from the history of the 1930s.

The leaked Citigroup memos indicate their advisors are telling them about the voter threat if they didn't already know. The response is to pay media to brainwash them into thinking it's a good system where they can become well-off, too.

https://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-pluton...

Plus, they give people plenty of distractions to shout at instead of improve their situation. Human nature takes over from there.

If the world comes apart at the seams, it won't matter whether or not the people are sheeple who have all been bamboozled. It will still negatively impact the people at the top creating these problems.

It may be "stupidity" rather than malice driving this. What I'm saying is they need to up their game out of enlightened self interest, even if they don't care one bit about the people.

If the de facto pie shrinks due to global mismanagement of resources, the richest of the rich have the most to lose.