Currently in the West, the banks own the government. Who do you think is in control, in England, King Charles, or the City of London?

How about the US, Washington, or Wall St?

Consider that both Putin and Xi cemented their power by taking on the oligarchs. That's why our oligarchs and their flunkies hate them so much.

Micheal Hudson wrote a series of books on how this conflict between the state and the rich played out in Antiquity;

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/the-delphic-oracle-was-their-davos-a-four-part-interview-with-michael-hudson-about-his-forthcoming-book-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-1.html

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/michael-hudson-debt-and-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-2.html

Three thousand years later and we are still caught in the same doom loops. Healthcare and education are rackets, the doors and wheels are falling off the airplanes, even the military is an ineffectual boondoggle, no matter how sociopathic the politicians, because it's all about how much you can suck out, not how much you add.

Just like villages, societies have to function as a larger organism, with individuals as cells, otherwise it becomes necrotic. Which it currently is.

It's not like the large majority are not perfectly happy to be part of the herd. Just try going against it, as I've had ample experience.