**Here is the crash course on stadium economics.
https://www.fieldofschemes.com/
Slaves defending the rapacious ways of their masters—prisoners defending the brutality of the prison guards.
It is pathetic. Stockholm Syndrome.**
Picture a lion approaching a heard of zebras in Africa. They all run. With the numbers all the zebras could surround the lion and crush him. Never happens. Humans are smart enough to know better but they don’t.
I like your zebra/lion analogy.
For the zebras to win they need excellent organization and tactics.
Anything less and they will be eaten.
Running is the best short term strategy—but the long term problem remains.
What I have zero tolerance for is zebras who try to sing the virtues of the lions.
I see way too much of that around here—along with denials that the lions exist at all.