Even the most intelligent don't understand today's world anymore. And they're not supposed to. That's part of the system. Can anyone here honestly claim, they completely understand our financial markets and know what to do about them? The complexity of the system isn't just completely unnecessary, it's undemocratic. The parasites that are making money out of money, have corrupted the system so much, have found all kinds of ways to create speculation (leader language for "betting") that no outsider can understand anymore. But those financial markets are what really shapes and governs this world. It's called "capitalism" for a reason, you know. In the end it's all just virtual, though. Our money isn't even worth anything by itself anymore, like it used to be. Suddenly there is a financial crisis that fucks up real economies and people starve. And what happens afterwards? Nothing. People don't even understand what happened, and who can blame them?
Capitalism brings out the worst in people. It's a nihilistic, inhuman system that requires people and corporations to fight each other or go down. There should be no way to exponentially generate more money simply by having it. And there shouldn't be interest rates to enslave common people into the economy and force unlimited growth at the expense of environment, people, animals, everything. The national debts in this world are about as high as the privately owned money by the upper zero-point-something percent. So even your taxes are paid to the banks that own you. And it's getting worse all the time. There is no turning it around. Either heads will roll or we are getting our Orwell-world. Technological advance is ready for it.
