Preferential attachment is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with 'our system'. One could equally say of an oppressive Stalinist regime 'power tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it,' and those who have a lot of power in such societies would not doubt agree.

The comment I responded to was the typical collage freshman “eat the rich” bs which is rooted in communistic ideation.

Then you should have directed your remarks to the person who wrote that instead of to me.