The Circus of Value by Ken Levine

This Fontaine fellow, he's a crook and a proper tea leaf, but he's got the atom. And that makes him the governor. He's singing the profits back into bigger and better plasmids. For we know it, bloke's going to have an army of splicers. We're going to have ourselves a whole heap of miseries. It's just hitting more on that point you're talking about. The one with the resources, the one with the riches is the one who runs the show. That's basically in every government. Yeah. It's an oligarchy to some extent. And there's nothing you can do about it.