Life as a pursuit of value.
A few people know how to extract value in a free market with high certainty. Knowing a particular event will occur, allows one to bet on, and extract value from, information. And when a handful few can generate information, knowing is owning.
Marx taught: in a fair market value equals labour cost. And indeed, globalists exploit cheaper labour of South East Asia to extract more value. We'll leave the question of why said value is usually captured in property in California, Florida or South of France for another time. Life being a set of common systems, entropy is evident outside of thermodynamics. Extracted value is usually paid for elsewhere.
Information and knowledge are of utmost importance, yet, there are other factors at play. The know-how, education, analytical thinking, “genes”.