The Cities built up during the Industrial Revolution. The Banksters needed people to work the machines. Then the War Machines. If you see people as cattle for the Elite. To be used and abused as required. It starts to make more sense on the direction we've gone over the last few hundred years.

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I am not sure I get the point of the meme. There are so many possibilities. I know, for fact (because I know someone personally) that super wealthy people sometimes see something from history that they absolutely love, and then they replicate it in their modern design. The person I know can't be the only person in the world who has done that. So, I would put this forward as reasonable doubt regarding the extrapolation that the meme is trying to put forth.