Financial sector is our new aristocratic system. Those will be and are now our rulers with the blue blood of money and we others have to sweat to pay for their living.
They tell us, that they are needed (as the aristocrats did in the middle ages to the farmers), since we can not go without (system relevant). But the thing is, that by manipulating our democratic systems, they made them self system relevant and they hinder that things can change. What they do is, they take the wealth of the earth away from the 99% and give it to themselves and the other riches. This system will one day kill of any creativity and any living resources of the earth.
A lot of people think Rand defended capitalism as we know it, which is quite untrue. Her conception of it was something very different. She referred to the present finance industry types as the "aristocracy of pull."
Not that I'm a Rand fanatic per se, but she is often misquoted and completely misunderstood. Some of her supposed fans misunderstand her as much as her opponents.
I don't know Ayn Rand. I also don't claim that my opinion is in any way new.
And: The financial sector are our new rulers, even when you are not afraid. Ignorance does not save from the truth.
Just look into the news. The Occupy movement was suppressed by the police, because the finance sector paid for it. The political system in most western countries is totally under control of the finance sector.
We are slaves, but we don't know it (yet).
Edit: In second reading your answer, I see that I misinterpreted your statements ... sorry! But for arguments sake, I leave the comment intact.
They tell us, that they are needed (as the aristocrats did in the middle ages to the farmers), since we can not go without (system relevant). But the thing is, that by manipulating our democratic systems, they made them self system relevant and they hinder that things can change. What they do is, they take the wealth of the earth away from the 99% and give it to themselves and the other riches. This system will one day kill of any creativity and any living resources of the earth.
They are the real anti-socials of the world.