The rich are able to influence the political process enormously more than the middle class and the poor. And we have empirical studies there from Gilles and others who have actually political science professors that found that generally the issues that matter to the rich get debated and acted upon much more frequent then those of the poor ormiddle class. The danger is that you might end up with something what they called before a self-sustaining upper class that would essentially be reproduced from generation to generation.

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