“Powerless”, but how many sets of guns/armor can your circle buy? 1000? 10,000? They’re still astonishingly poor and closer to homelessness or kidnapping to El Salvador than being rich. Better to pick a side in the class war, and doing nothing is picking oppression. Eating the rich also includes non-rich wealthy class-traitors.

“Risk your life” - yeah, and it’s not even that literally extreme. This isn’t the Imperial Guard.

The markets are still fraudulent. The fines are really just a cost of doing business.

This is going to be a “fixing your own pothole” situation. Sometimes, when your community is facing a deadly or costly threat, you need to take matters into your own hands to remove the threat.