# How the System Enriches the Wealthy and Distracts the Masses

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2099586844694319587
- Source account: [@benwehrman](https://x.com/benwehrman)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:19
- Published: 2026-09-15
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses) Nothing in this world works the way you think it does. The police aren't who you think they are.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=7) The sheriff is not who you think he is. Banks do not do what you think they do.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=13) Governments don't operate anywhere near the way you think they do.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=19) And that's why today, when you look at what's going on in the world today, none of it makes any sense. It's all crazy. It makes no sense at all.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=28) Seems very destructive. But actually, in point of fact, you don't know how the system works. It's working perfectly fine.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=38) The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=41) And the people, the masses are entertained with television and alcohol and drugs. And the wealthy continue to get wealthy.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=48) And so it's working perfectly fine. Once you understand how the world really works, and nothing works the way you think it does, people will always support what they want to hear.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=63) They will not support what they don't want to hear.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=66) You will find the one thing that people, generally speaking, do not want to hear is the truth.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4L3n8o5df7iC/en/how-the-system-enriches-the-wealthy-and-distracts-the-masses?t=74) Nobody is happy when they have to be faced with the truth.