Conspiracy??? What conspiracy? I'm not talking about any conspiracy, I'm talking about how the system just naturally works, that's all. The richest people at the top of the power chain work in such a way as most directly benefits them, that works its way down through all the levels of government, it gets enshrined in law and legislation and executive decisions, and the results are predictable.

It's been that way in the past too in many other great powers and empires. It isn't just a recent American phenomenon.