>>15486348You know banker elites have funded both sides of wars throughout history? Chaos is profitable, especially when a population is gaining strength and threatening your strangehold on power. Sometimes it's to cull the herd and absorb the wealth of a growing middle class. Sometimes it's to smash a potential unification that would have people working together for their own interests instead of yours. Sometimes it's to make people cry for a solution that you present in the form of a stronger government with expanded regulatory powers. After 2008, Occupy Wall Street blew up and the financial elite were threatened by a unified mass of men and women of different races, religions, and social classes. They then pushed woke "leftism" through schools, media, and corporate HR and stoked the fires of the culture war wherever they could. As to the current chaos, you said it well: "If workers are hungry and desperate, they'll work for cheaper." If they give the masses time to get their bearings and take stock of the world, the masses will notice that their quality of life is declining at the same time as wealth inequality is deepening to the point of neo-feudalism. The answer is chaos, poverty, despair. Stability is well and good for millionaires, but trillionaires need the people distracted - world wars, the cold war, culture wars, anything to keep the people throwing stones at each other instead of them.