"George Orwell offered an excellent explanation for this phenomenon: as the imperial end-game approaches, it becomes a matter of self-preservation to breed a special-purpose ruling class—one that is incapable of understanding that the end-game is approaching" - License to Kill, Orlov
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.