Bingo. The super-rich love a financial collapse, it gives them a golden opportunity to turn disaster capitalist. All those foreclosed homes & businesses available at a knockdown price, nom nom nom.
I need to get off lemmy. Too many teenagers on here with their "burn it all down"s and "trust me, I have a super easy solution to a giant complex problem that has been plaguing humanity for generarions"s and "the bad guys are actually good guys, lol I'm so edgy"s
now now, no need to be dismissive of other age groups in this matter. I'm sure there's plenty of non-teenager people that think the same way too. on the internet, nobody knows you're a 74 yr old extremist
Historically riots, mobs, and terror have been the answer. See the origins of the luddites, saboteurs, the French revolution(s), the socialist movement, etc.
The luddites failed and the French revolutions ended poorly for everyone. Not exactly the best examples to draw from if you are trying to encourage violent rebellion.
I'm not encouraging violent rebellion, I'm simply saying the powerful have historically only ever been checked by property damage, terror, and blood, or at least fear thereof.
But you bring up a good point, none of the checks come cheap, they will fight back, and the more of a head start they have, the more they have to throw against you. If there's not enough of you, they will prevail and you will be slandered like the luddites.
If there are enough of you, you will be remembered as the heroes of the revolution and usher in the new era, much like the Republic of France, the worker rights movement, the USSR, the US, the Enlightenment, etc.