"Property the way it rules today.  So far Michael has merely antagonized a few crooked gamblers.  But what happens when there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and more, of people who can't be stopped by bank vaults and who have only their self-discipline to restrain them from taking anything they want?  To be sure, that discipline is stronger than any possible legal restraint - but no banker can grok that until he himself travels the thorny road to achieve that discipline... and he'll wind up no longer a banker.  What happens to the stock market when the illuminati know which way a stock will move - and the brokers don't?"