The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.
Robert PayneHistorically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.
Robert Payne