This is often forgotten but to me is the core issue. Sociologists point this out. Many corporate executives and politicians went to the same schools, are part of the same non-profits where they sit next to each other at dinners, and their kids are friends on the playground at whichever private school. They end up on the boards of each other’s companies. If you really boil it down, in the US there are probably less than 500,000 people in this upper echelon, fewer with real power. Same neighborhoods, same restaurants, same vacations, same circles.