I think it's for the most part that average people don't realize what power they have. They are bombarded by the media with wealth of famous people while opposition politics has an interest to talk down every individuals situation to gain voters. But if you look at what is really going in, then you see that things are quite different than they seem.
For instance, the super-rich like Bill Gates or George Soros have always just their asset's market value presented, while the average person doesn't have a market value. If you correct that bias and you only look at real assets, the gap between the top and the masses shrinks quite significantly.
The average person usually has income and will likely have that income for at least half a year (current turbulence and trajectory ignored for the rest of this comment). If that average income is 2,500 USD per month, then this person has a market value of at least 15,000 USD and if that person has a decent job training and is expert in something, even if it's just welding, then the value of that for the average person, who is 40 years old, is another 500,000 USD worth. Beyond that 90% own a car worth at least 5,000 USD, 50% own a house/apartment worth 100,000 USD, 50% have a pension plan with at least 150,000 USD, 40% have a stock portfolio worth 20,000 USD or more and 95% have two parents with an average asset value of 300,000 USD who will die one day and leave their possessions to an average of 1.5 children and so on.
Counting all of that together, the averagest of average person's wealth measured in market value is at least 1 million USD. Now think of the top 25% in which you are with a chance of 1 to 4 meaning it's quite likely that at one point in your life you are among them. They are worth some 20 million USD, but have no clue that this is the case. Now take that amount and divide it though the 40 billion Gates and Soros are supposed to be worth. You come out at 1,000 to one.
In other words: When you look at the market value the 2,000 slightly above average individuals are equal to Gates and Soros! Since that's equated often enough with power, you can conclude that 1,000 individuals are enough have the same impact on the world as these two have. Why isn't this happening? Because, we are told day by day that the opposite is the case. Most of us are much more powerful than anyone would imagine.