What have the "average" sacrificed?  You're long on hyperbole, short on facts.  I would argue that the cost of doing nothing is vastly greater, particularly for the "average" person, than the cost of doing something.  It would seem you think the question here is who hurts more, the average man or the elite.  You want the average man to win this battle...but the truth is, it will cost the average man the war.