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Yes the problem is class conflict, not a handful of people. The handful of people are just a sign of how badly the capitalist class are winning the conflict.

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"the problem" is the pareto distribution of wealth and power we can observe in every human society we know of. The tension ("class conflict") between the 20% and the 80% is a symptom. Even those systems that try to reduce its effect still have it.

Wealth distribution is not the same as class conflict, it's an effect of it, but yes class division has existed since civilisation began (not so much beforehand though).

In feudal times it was between the aristocracy and the peasantry, now it's between business owners and investors, and employees.

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