[aramchek]

Their job is to simple preside over a system of pillaging in which both rich and poor skim from the efforts of the middle-class and off-shored sweatshop laborer. And very slowly pass on this debt, de-value the labor/savings, etc. of that shrinking middle-class.

There is no natural reason to explain this supposed economic catastrophe. On the contrary, humanity has never been this efficient in manufacturing, robotics, mass communications, agriculture, medicine, etc. It's a planned and orchestrated thing -- keep the middle-class just on the edge of calamity so they'll live in economic fear and keep the treadmill turning.