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.