[Bnichs]

A system that naturally occurs as a result of the context like you describe sure sounds like a superstructure. Which in our case is a government that allows anyone with the money to steer the ship while actual people have little power to change anything. And when you put enough of those people with money in a room with people who take money and give them laws, it absolutely results in a single unified direction for that system. Of course there are disenters, but they are ineffective compared to those with actual power.

[sorcerer-mar]

Yes, it is a superstructure but not one that "says" things and "makes decisions" in the way people imagine.

> it absolutely results in a single unified direction for that system.

Like below, you must live in an alternate timeline. There are lots of people who chose to "go their own way."