But why should we live in a world where the average person in a “rich” country — or even a poor one — is perpetually in debt to a class of ultra wealthy?

That’s easy to answer, and the reply is 500 years old. Read Niccolò Machiavelli’s Discorsi. Keeping the people in poverty is the perfect way for the elite to maintain control over their exploitation.

The question is how can we create an elite free world…