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wthrfrk80 says

I've heard that quote before too. It should terrify anyone.

I do not take it to mean anything sinister. Every ideology has it's zealots who think the PERFECT system can be achieved, if only the masses are tricked or beaten into submission. In point of fact compromises must be made, and the realities and hypocrisies of crowd behaviour have to be recognized.

You're very naive.

The 0.1% gets a cut of pretty much all the money you spend on anything.

And they get a cut of money you don't even spend, by diluting it with a printing press to create loans to bankers at 0% interest.

True. The 0.1% makes money

1. Through inflation. Even if you do nothing, they tax you for holding savings.
2. Through credit/debit cards. Even if you are a deadbeat who pays off your credit card before interest, or uses only a debit card, they charge the merchants for the electronic transfer and the merchants get that money from you.
3. Through obscene interest for short term loans. They make a lot of money on high interest rates and credit card fees.
4. Through bank savings/checking account fees. You loan your money to the bank for little to no interest and they charge you for it.
5. Through exploitation. Walmart’s CEO of U.S. Business Bill Simon gleefully bragged about exploiting the poor by stocking overpriced small packages when the poor or on welfare receive their checks and large, cheaper packages at other times in order to maximize the sucking of every cent from the poor including those supported by our taxpayer dollars. See http://nudges.org/the-hidden-behavioral-tax-from-a-tight-budget-lessons-from-late-night-walmart/
6. Through Congressional bribes. They bribe Congress and presidents so that the laws are written to help them exploit you.

Leopold B Scotch says

Implied: what's mine is mine to do with as I please, charity or otherwise.

Does that include the land stolen from the natives?