The conspiracy theory is central to the larger theory.
If you believe that the world we live in has one, or a few, central intelligences directing how it has unfolded, then it's relatively easily changed. Find those people, usurp their levers of power.
If it's bullshit and nobody anywhere has that kind of influence, then it's impossible to usurp the Secret Masters and use their mechanism.
So. Yeah. It matters to the argument if there's a conspiracy.
> It matters to the argument if there's a conspiracy.
I don't believe it does. Taking the dot-points as fact (People work almost all the time, etc.), which I believe they are, then we accept that as the reality of our world, and we can make a choice to do something about it as individuals (i.e. stop buying stuff), or not (i.e. keep buying stuff).
For an individual to make that choice and take action, it makes no difference why that is the current reality of our world. It only matters that it is.
We don't need to usurp any powers from anybody (real or imagined), or use any kind of mechanism as you suggest, we just need to change our actions as individuals (if we decide we're not happy with the way things are) or keep doing what we're doing (if we're fine with the way things are)
> it's relatively easily changed. Find those people, usurp their levers of power.
If it's so easy, could you please do us all a favor and usurp the levers of power of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and Goldman-Sachs to start with? Waiting patiently, thanks!
It doesn't matter if it's a conspiracy or not, the fact is it's a reality of the world we live in.
Acknowledgement of a problem is the first step to fixing it, or at the very least minimizing it's impact.