Some of that may be true, but the world is not zero-sum, definitely not zero-sum at all levels.
If you go buy some wood and build a piece of furniture, you have created something of value that is more than what it was before, and the elite have nothing to say or benefit from it.
And if buying is a bridge too far, you can go into the woods, cut down a tree, and drag it home and fashion it into something.
Yes, entropy means everything will eventually slump into the heat-death of the universe, but here and now we can fight entropy and make our world, even if just the local world of where we live, a bit better.
If you go buy some wood and build a piece of furniture, you have created something of value that is more than what it was before, and the elite have nothing to say or benefit from it.
And if buying is a bridge too far, you can go into the woods, cut down a tree, and drag it home and fashion it into something.
Yes, entropy means everything will eventually slump into the heat-death of the universe, but here and now we can fight entropy and make our world, even if just the local world of where we live, a bit better.