Let me guess, because rich people exchange favours with their rich friends in the government? If humans were perfect and incapable of evil, we would have never

Let me guess, because rich people exchange favours with their rich friends in the government? If humans were perfect and incapable of evil, we would have never needed a government in the first place. The problem is that a government is made up of the very same people who are capable of committing evil. I think it's pretty naive to think that human beings will stop being evil just because they're in charge. Sure they will make a lot of gestures and speeches, give a few cents to homeless and poorly maintain some roads, just so people won't lift their heads from their smartphones. The real problem here is that it's 2020 and we still have entities that centralise immense power without considering conflicts of interest. This is not a US phenomenon, it's happening everywhere, it's been happening since the beginning of time and it's the real cause of inequality between the 0.01% and the rest.