The old euphemism is true. Money is power. Acute income inequality inevitably ends in power inequality. Crony capitalism is a by product of countries that lean too much on capitalism. Our oligarchs/capitalist, like Gates and Bezos, buy our media or control our communication via social media like here to completely control the narrative for example. Big government, big corporations, big oligarchs, etc., it's all worthy concern, but most have blinders to one or two of these items.