While this is an older essay, this is up there with one of my favorite PG essays This part always has particularly far-reaching consequences. The problem here

While this is an older essay, this is up there with one of my favorite PG essays This part always has particularly far-reaching consequences. The problem here is not wealth, but corruption. So why not go after corruption? People like to assail lobbyists and the super-rich corporations that supposedly buy favorable policy, and of course, everyone then blames the rich for it. But it's not the rich that deserve the fundamental blame. It's the politicians that directly create policy, and can enforce that policy at gunpoint. No amount of money gives you legal authority to stick a gun in someone's face. It's the government, and only the government that make the laws - not the lobbyists and not the rich. Economic power is not the same thing as political power. Which is why transparency (which PG also speaks about) is so key.