> who can influence and how much? Yes! In all organizations, money and power buy influence. The internet briefly changed this, but it has reasserted itself.

> who can influence and how much? Yes! In all organizations, money and power buy influence. The internet briefly changed this, but it has reasserted itself. What do we expect the powerful to do with their influence then? Rules for rulers says they must use it to increase their power for any other decision reduces their evolutionary fitness and long term survival. Therefore in the long run altruism is strongly selected against and we would expect to see less of it.