lobby or beg

Powerful people can lobby. Powerless people beg. What leverage do you have to coerce the powerful to treat you differently? No leverage means you simply resort to begging and pleading. The peasants in this economic caste system have no leverage. Economic boycotts ring hollow when the currency is not any real anymore. Revolt is reserved for the movie screens. We live vicariously through the characters on screen dreaming of being them because our real lives are controlled by the state.