[malfist]

Who is "they" in your story?

[trolleski]

I stated that in the post. :)

[doctorwho42]

Probably referring to those with vast amounts of power and wealth at their disposal.

There isn't some vast conspiracy. But generally it takes a certain kind of person to crave that type of wealth and power. So they tend to all pull in the same direction to keep and build upon said wealth/power. Thus can be viewed as collectively working towards the same nefarious state of things.

[trolleski]

Yes, but sometimes they actually cooperate and coordinate, like we saw in the Epstein files.

And the unpredictability actually has a name and it is "flooding the zone".

[red-iron-pine]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood