Idealism and naivety are often confused and I fully accept (and lament) that there have always been and always will be greedy individuals who are willing to take advantage of those who are less able to stick up for themselves. The thing is in real terms there are far fewer at the top now, power is concentrated into the hands of a miniscule minority at the top of the pile by virtue of the collaboration of government and big business.
By the 19C we had already had thousands of years of people being oppressed (tithings anyone?) and I do accept it is an element of human nature. The problem though is that the powerful have now created a system for themselves (and we to a certain extent have helped them, through our weakness) where they can apply the the feudal system on a global scale and have become far less assailable because of it. In the 19C a well placed arrow could put a cat amongst the pigeons, now you can’t even begin to get close.
I am not trying to propose a solution, I have no idea what we should do about it, I am just whining! I have witnessed the STW massive solve some very obscure points in the past and I wondered what their take on this particular issue was, as well as to make the point that big business would not be half so powerful if it were not for corrupt governments.
