Our economic system starves you to death if you don't

People aren't vampires because they're on top, they're on top because they're vampires.

Shit flows downstream

A change in economic system might be neither sufficient nor necessary, especially if the new economic system turns out to be even worse, or a scam.

One approach is to have expectations to not only the economic system, but also other systems, and the different people involved, no matter if they're on the top, on the bottom, or somewhere in the middle.