People broadly have an unconscious belief that someone is “in charge” and we like to believe it’s either a hero or villain depending on if you like/dislike what’s happening around you.

The sad reality is that a comic villain at least would imply a thought-out plan, and in the real-world, people rarely do this. We usually accomplish great things as a species like building and maintaining cities, logistics and utilities and making computers because there’s a lot of us all focused on doing the same thing. Not because there’s some elite class of “leader” who knows how to create wealth or jobs from ideas and knows exactly what to do and when and what the results would be. That’s just the image that robber-barons want to instill in you, but they’re not planning beyond making off with the cartoonish bag of cash with a big dollar sign on it.

The world is dumber than we possibly know.