You ask the question “who”, perhaps it should be “what”.
I put it to you that in the majority of cases we are governed by power and wealth, for if the individual or party that governs did not have both they would be unlikely to gain government.
The wealth and power are assisted by two constraints that are typical of those that are governed. Those two things are apathy and ignorance. This was articulated by Michael D Yates who said in “The Great Inequality”:
“…First, power allows a person unilaterally to change another's constraints, and it can, when exercised long enough, change the habits of subordinates so that the latter act automatically in the interests of their masters. Second, those with personal power will inevitably also have social power, and this will allow them to make the rules that all must obey, and these will benefit the powerful. These rules, in turn, may come to seem normal, which lowers any costs the powerful would have to incur to maintain their power. Third, wherever there is power, there can be no democracy, since if there where, such power would be abolished by majority rule…”
It is our collective ignorance and apathy that allow wealth and power to govern.
People invest so much in things that really don’t matter.
Strongly agree, the power currently lies quite in the money, you can notice it in every stratum of the current society, when everyone is able to do anything, even if they do not like it, just for money. Prostitutes are a living example of what I'm saying, would those women go to bed with anyone for free? no, but if they are willing to sell themselves for money, they do something that goes against themselves just because money matters more to them.
Those who have power do not play politics, they finance both sides and they put people to choose, left wing or right wing, same bird.
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Vieira, money is the lubricant of power.
A disproportionate share of the money supply enables the wealthy to have a disproportionate share of the real resources that they do not produce.
The problem we have as a species is, the majority of us desire to be wealthy. We do not consider that disproportionate wealth can only be financed by someone else’s poverty.
The dominant neo-liberal politics of the planet of most franchises maintain unemployment and inequity and seeds ignorance and apathy, with myths that entrench austerity.
We need to see disproportionate wealth for what it is!
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