>>why are they so dumb in how they now control it, constantly allowing bad things to happen.<<
Just because you lost you job or your home doesn’t mean the wealthy folks are going to lose theirs. What you consider as a bad thing doesn’t affect their life, does it?
I haven’t lost my job. I’m doing quite well, I tend to survive recessions glowingly. But bad things in the economy DO effect the wealthy. Just the devaluation of the dollar effects them, if you’re worth X billion dollars and the dollar loses half its buying power guess what just happened to your net worth. Then of course there’s the rest of that bullet point that you studiously edited around, fat and happy people are easier to control, recessions prevent fat happiness.