If it only pumped the money to a few individuals someone would've pushed those individuals off a cliff and seized power by now. The magic of the system is that

If it only pumped the money to a few individuals someone would've pushed those individuals off a cliff and seized power by now. The magic of the system is that there's enough trickle down to motivate the petite-bourgeois (I hate Marx, but I'll be darned if he didn't enumerate some good economic tiers) to make them keep the system running. Your media talking heads peddling division, your 200k+/yr software engineers implementing extractive algorithms to make the gig economy tick, etc, etc, etc.