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The only problem with this story is that if they take down the US economic system then it will just be replaced by one controlled by a much worse government like China. I hope they go into the significant geopolitical issues involved in doing something of this magnitude. Basically why E Corp may be bad, there are a lot worse entities out there. It would be intriguing if they had this happen and their scheme blew up in their face or had the mercenary hacker group be one that is controlled entirely by the Chinese (this is actually something they would do in real life).
First of all, we are only on the 4th episode of the season. Who's to say this isn't where the story goes? We haven't gotten that far and this could make a great "plot twist" or unintended consequence of their plan. While they are good at hacking, they aren't thinking about the larger picture and what the actual results may be.
Also, when Mr. Robot is first explaining the plan to Elliot, he talks about another hacking group (which we learn about later in episodes 3 and 4) that is taking care of part of the plan. Darlene gets upset and talks about how they are mercenaries and she doesn't want to work for them unless she has to because they will work with the Chinese who she talks about as being an evil force and causing problems.
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The only thing that is unrealistic about this is that the governments are not involved yet. The main character is good but he would be ground to dust in the face of the NSA, which has hundreds of people who are just as capable and access to far better technology. You don't do something like this without catching their attention. Same thing with the Chinese, Russian, and Israeli intelligence agencies.
Again, we don't know the governments aren't involved. Hell, we know the mysterious hacking syndicate that is blackmailing Ollie is working for some Chinese agency, whether its the government or corporation. But they are introducing external agencies and "forces" which are going to have an impact.
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Also the other thing that is a little far fetched is that he's doing a lot of his hacking from home. That is not smart and how you get caught. Most of the guys like him remotely hack into insecure wireless networks and use their internet for illegal activities. It's fairly easy to do with the right equipment as well since most people are terrible at security.
Did you miss the whole point about the arcade? They do all the hacking from there. The "hacking" that Elliot is doing is very "low level" stuff like reading emails and things like that. Who's he going to get in trouble with? All of the hacking we've seen him do at home is really just "illegal investigating". He's not changing data or anything like that, just finding out the truth and exposing people. And even then, who's to say he's not running encrypted tunnels to other locations and routing his traffic through more "unsecure" networks.
Also, remember in the opening scene when he brings down the coffee guy for child porn? Elliot talks about how he controls the exit node (server) on the TOR network and that's how he found him. If he's running that server, there's no way he could do that out of his home.
What I really like about this show is that the hacking and technology is really just a plot device for the main story. They get most of the details right and try and make it accurate, but the real story isn't even about hacking. It's a thriller about people and power.
