Surge pricing and surveillance pricing: two methods of inflating prices that have nothing to do with the actual price of the goods or service. Inflation and tariffs making regular citizens poorer, yet CEOs are making record salaries and bonuses.

Companies are raking big profits. The stock market is booming.

What’s going on?

Well, it’s obvious.

First, there are two economies: one for the little people, and one for the Pick Pocket CEOs.

These people shake you down gratuitously.

Unnecessarily.

And they get rich while you get poor.

That’s how we manufacture poverty.

It works as long as you let the pick pocket pick your pocket.

The second you grab their hand and break it, the scam ends.

Because there are consequences.

A pick pocket will keep picking pockets until someone collars them and says, “Earn your keep without stealing mine.”

These aren’t robber barons. These are pick pocket CEOs.

As long as you take out loans, get a second mortgage on your house, and max our your credits cards, you are playing into their hands. You’re giving them money that you don’t have.

And that’s the point: to manufacture poverty so that no one is ever a challenge to them.

To break the cycle requires identifying a pick pocket CEO and then stopping their theft.

It’s the only way.