> "Ultimately, every society lives from the backbone from a strong middle class," said Seitzberg. "If you get just a top level, a small amount of very rich people and a very large piece of very poor people, it leads to social unrest."
The "a small amount of very rich people" is basically Congress, backed up by the various lobbyists who are paid by huge industries, such as the military-industrial complex. They create the laws and, as an example, push the NSA to push mass surveillance, which in turn will help them kill any "Occupy" movements before they even become serious threats to their out-of-proportion wealth. Whenever you communicate, encrypt it.