The economic history of mankind has been forged by a multitude of entities that wield power and influence, whether they have been empires, tribes, trading companies, wealthy individuals, religious groups, aristocracy, despots, politically-driven dogmatists etc.

Are we 'little people' therefore simply fanciful in expecting fairness and unadulterated democracy (and all that goes with it when the man on the street votes on matters beyond his ken) and deriding the latest versions of such entities, whether your conspiracy theory is directed at globalism, Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, the establishment, multi-national companies, the bankers or any other powerful group that wishes to maintain its position?

I sometimes think of someone like a medieval blacksmith hammering away in his forge and paying tithes to whatever army chooses to sweep across his tranche of the country at any point in time. Same old, same old.