the rich hired a bunch of thugs with clubs to protect them from people who wanted to rip them off.

Later, they used taxes to hire cops and and set up a legal system, prisons, etc to spread the expense around, so that the poor would have to pay part of the cost of the goons recruited to keep them down.

Now the rich are trying to set it up so their victims have to cover the full costs of their own oppression.

But that's ok. If you keep your nose clean, follow the rules, stay out of trouble and do what you're told then one day you'll be rich too and they will welcome you into their company. Sure, I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's how it works in most of the third world. And we're working hard to spread that system here too.

What they forget is that sometimes they get a bit too greedy, and things spiral out of control.///