I agree. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they tend to ignore the fundamental darwinian laws of human weakness. The best conspiracy that the "elite" can really pull off is to profit successfully from the predictable ways the uneducated masses spend their time and energy. This has less to do with secrecy than just thinking ahead a few years at a time, and always placing bets on human stupidity. Contracts are socially constructed bullshit which have little to do with actual power.