The people have very little control, now, because capitalism has failed them, as it always will, by creating an oligarchy of corruption via huge wealth disparity. We are wildly deluded if with think we are "free" in this system. Or that we could implement any other. The current government of the U.S. represents no one but the wealthy oligarchs that bought and paid for every significant member in it. And they are steadily dismantling every law and policy that protects the citizenry from their economic exploitation and abuse. Capitalism in the U.S. has been a wild success for the very wealthy elite. They now control everything: the government, the media, the federal reserve, and they use them to continue to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense. And that 'expense" continues to increase, and with that increase comes the very real suffering of more and more people. Unnecessary suffering. And wen that suffering becomes too much for people to endure, they will revolt. They will have no choice. And in the end, it's because the richest country in the history of the world still couldn't manage to share is wealth among its citizens in an equitable manner. GREED will have made that impossible.