[galaxyLogic]

I was just thinking about it, rich people have money to spend in elections to get their representatives elected. When they do they make laws, or remove existing laws, to help rich get richer, so they have more money to spend in the next election. And so it goes.

Solution might be legislation that puts limits on how much money each person can spend on elections. But it may be too late, there are so many rich people in the congress that such laws can not pass.

The rich not only want to get richer they also want the lower classes to get poorer so they will work for less and will have to work longer hours so they will have less time and money to educate themselves, and thus will remain clueless about what is going on.

[WalterBright]

I'd prefer term limits.

[galaxyLogic]

Definitetly, except people to which the term-limits would apply really don't like term-limits. And they are in power.

But I don't want to souond too pessimistic, there are lots of good people and progress is inevitable. AI gets put down a lot but I think it will make people much smarter.