And it is the fear of loosing assets, coupled with the struggle to keep up with the perpetual debt and inflation inherent in the system, compounded by the inescapable scarcity within in the money supply itself, created by the interest that can never be re-payed, that keeps the wage-slave in line, running on a hamster wheel, with millions of others, in effect powering an empire that truly benefits only the elite at the top of the pyramid.