The fraud in this kind of propaganda is how it deliberately lies about who is “on top” and who is “on the bottom.” They want you to believe that people who succeed through voluntary trade are your rulers and your oppressors. They aren’t. They don’t command you. They don’t tax you. They don’t conscript you. They don’t jail you. They can’t touch your life or property without your consent. The state can. So the deception is essential. They blur the distinction between economic success and political power on purpose. They reframe producers as predators so you’ll resent them, while quietly transferring real authority to the one institution that never needs your permission. This isn’t top versus bottom. It’s consent versus coercion. The shop owner, investor, or employer can only deal with you by offering value. The state deals with you by force. One must persuade. The other commands. That’s why this rhetoric feeds on ignorance and envy. If people understood who actually has the power to seize, regulate, forbid, and punish, they wouldn’t be angry at those who trade. They’d be wary of those who rule. And that’s the real goal: convince you that your freedom is the problem so you’ll willingly hand it to the only entity that can take everything without asking.