The money-changers and their greed have been stealing our money since forever. How does it all work?

The US government officially turned over our economic system to the bankers in 1913 when they were able to buy off the necessary politicians. Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, which Woodrow Wilson signed into law (and later regretted). Note that the "Federal Reserve System" (The Fed) is a self-regulated group of privately held banks and has minimal government oversight (the SEC consists of bankers and usually ignores their own rules).

The Fed creates money out of nothing and loans it to the government (with interest) so that our politicians can spend to their heart's content, all backed by our tax dollars.

The Fed creates money out of nothing and passes it off to banks, which magically multiply what they get by at least ten times ("fractional reserve banking") and loan it (with interest) to business and individuals through home purchases, car purchases, school loans, etc.

The Fed controls how much money there is and what the interest rates are. It creates (and profits from) both economic booms as well as recessions.

Wall Street (investment banks, brokers, market makers) controls the price of stocks, picks winners and shorts the losers, creates complicated "derivatives" available only to the rich, and stuffs as much of YOUR investment money into their off-shore accounts as possible. And when they screw up there are always bailouts from your tax dollars.

How much have they hoarded? Some facts and figures...

The top 1% owned a record 32.3% of the nation’s wealth as of the end of 2021, data show. The share of wealth held by the bottom 90% of Americans, likewise, has declined slightly since before the pandemic, from 30.5% to 30.2%. The bottom 50% held 2.6%. (link)

A 2019 study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families (0.003%) in the US was 23 percent, more than a percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent paid by the bottom half of American households (link)

Using Federal Reserve data, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth reported in August 2019 that "... we see that the bottom 50 percent of wealth owners experienced no net wealth growth since 1989. At the other end of the spectrum, the top 1 percent have seen their wealth grow by almost 300 percent since 1989" (link)

The total wealth of the 1% reached a record $45.9 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, said the Federal Reserve’s latest report on household wealth. Their fortunes increased by more than $12 trillion, or more than a third, during the course of the pandemic (link)

According to the annual Modern Wealth Survey from Charles Schwab, people believe that an average net worth of $774,000 is what it takes to be financially comfortable. ... The median net worth for U.S. households is $121,700, per the Fed. And as other reports have found, many U.S. households have very little or no savings at all (link)

The problem isn't corrupt government. The problem is the corrupt economic system that owns the government.

We've all heard about "the swamp", the "revolving door", the 100-to-1 ratio of lobbyists to lawmakers. At this point our government is just a tool used by the super-wealthy. And it's not unique to the US! Through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (and many other methods), the vultures keep entire countries indebted to them. The entire world economy revolves around debt! At this point there is little that can be done to get out from under this oppression. And when the greed gets out of hand and the next global recession happens, it's the middle class that pays with lost jobs, foreclosed homes, and bankrupt small business.