That's unfortunate. Of all the conspiracy one-liners, this is one of the least dramatic, and most often true (whether due to insight or broken-clock style).
The problem is that it's such a defeatist attitude. How are we expected to fix anything if "the system" is "rigged"? If I put my conspiracy theory hat on, I would say that those in power would love it if people kept speaking of things really abstractly like that, because it guarantees nobody would actually do anything about it.
