I agree with you when you say "Once there's a particularly moneyed segment of the population, they will go to whatever ends to ensure that people will not care that they have the most power" However I think that there are some benefits of capitalism in that aspect. We so far have been the society that has best controlled this impulse from the rich. The rich controlling society has been around forever, but with our capitalist system it has not run rampant, as it has in many other situations. We are getting to that point but it has been a gradual process. Through our democratic processes we have slowed it down, which I think is a good thing. I don't think that any system of government will be able to control the rich portion of its population without some factor of corruption. The main thing that we need to worry about is how we control the flow of money and process it towards funding better things. Which leads to a more communist ideology...which doesn't work well. I don't know what to do );