@rbreich You have your priorities mixed up... people making more than everyone else, no matter the extent is **not** the issue. It only detracts from the real issue, which is the quality of living of the poorest people below the poverty line.
Wealth is not a pie, a fixed thing with only so much to go around. One person having more does **not** mean someone else has to have less. Wealth is something constantly being created and destroyed, the real question is why arent the poor able to create wealth.
@freemo @rbreich
This was extensively discussed in Marx’s Das Kapital and even the two thousand years old Bible has monitions on this.
In particular, separation of powers principle has its roots in Plato and was discussed by Locke and Montesquieu.
But to the legislature, executive, a judiciary powers you need to add at least the informative (already known as the fourth power), the economic and the technological ones.