Once it ends up as such an extreme oligarchy, the entire system is proven illegitimate. No system succeeds by explicitly acknowledged ideology: some people are

Once it ends up as such an extreme oligarchy, the entire system is proven illegitimate. No system succeeds by explicitly acknowledged ideology: some people are simply better than others, and those better people are wealthy, it's just an undeniable fact. And that's because the human primate is competitive and biologically inclined to violent jealousy when seeing fellow primates have a lot more shit than they do for no good reason. Not all of them. But enough of them.