Tangent: >leave it to the billionaires to decide who rules - which is almost the case in the US, isn't it?

I realized a few years ago that this is the end result in any organization, but some German beat me to it in 1911.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

>Michels theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies.