eli5: How did society form to give the greatest benefits are to very small portions of the worlds population a way that be , and has it always been like this.

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eli5: How did society form to give the greatest benefits are to very small portions of the worlds population a way that be , and has it always been like this.

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There are people who have money and power. The people with money and power structure society to benefit the people with money and power.

Many societies are democratic republics, where the people vote in leaders. The voted in leaders continue to structure society to benefit the people with money and power, as they are now in that group. They distract the people by telling them that this is for the best, or that the other political groups are bad because they will take away your cherished somethingorother.