The weird thing about it all is that if you actually take care of the people at the bottom of the economic scale, the country overall gets richer, especially in a capitalist system.

Not that China is a great model, but its transformation is still instructive.

500 million or so poor peasants have transformed into a middle class of sorts, and the country boomed.

Give people money, they spend it. This political entrapment we find ourselves in is a little bizarre.

And unfortunately, the people who could help lead the way out of it, the "influencers" (God, I hate that term, someone should shoot me for using it), like entertainers and sports stars, so quickly become one percenters that they don't want to shake the tree that gave them the golden fruit.

Rappers are revolutionaries until they start making a lot of money, for example, like the rock stars of years ago, but once they taste the cash, they join the cash hoarders.