What are your thoughts on my paranoid conspiracy theory?

Recently, I have started to suspect, and even to a certain extent believe my own conspiracy theory, and I am curious to see what people think of it and what criticism and counter arguments can be thrown at it.

The conspiracy theory:

There is a plot to strip the public of their wealth with the aim of keeping them under control.

Originally, back in the day so to speak, there would be a castle with a king, and the king would be both richer and smarter than the public, these elements would allow the king to rule, and thus enjoy a luxurious quality of life.

As time passed, the public acquired books and schools, and started to become smarter. However, the king still had access to private high quality education, private libraries, and money.

Fast forwards to modern day, and many members of the general public are now smarter than your average politician.

For government to keep control, they need to be smarter and richer than us, and if left unchecked, it would not take the public long to take over.

The strategy, is to create a fake economic crisis to strip the public of their wealth. You see things like cash4gold schemes, to further strip people of wealth, and things like inheritance tax, to stop the public from getting rich the same way the politicians and government got rich.

Furthermore, you see things like SOPA and PIPA popping up, with the intention of controlling the internet, with the goal of preventing things like the Arab spring from happening.

Just like slave owners did not like their slaves to read, our government does not want us to be smart enough to challenge them, and so we are seeing all these different things.

In my mind, this all started around about the time that the internet took off and became globally popular.

The idea, is to strip us of wealth, as that is the final frontier of control. If we were smarter and richer, the government would lose control.

I think they want more things like fast food and alcohol, more dumb TV, and more controlling laws and taxes, to keep us unhealthy, dumb, poor, and easy to control.

So, that is the rough outline of my unsupported paranoid conspiracy, what do you think of it?