Why are Billionaires, so much more powerful than labor?

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Money and buying politicians  (and Supreme Court Judges)- the short answer.  The Billionaires (Capitalists) pay millions to shut down the ideas which help the middle class and poor.  They have been quite effective since Reagan.

Armed with these distorted arguments, capital is not just insulated against labor. It is in a position to steer every economic policy debate its way. As Suresh Naidu writes in a wonderful essay on many of these same points, “In a thoroughly marketized world, the wealthy can purchase educational reform, ….,think-tanks, legislative language…”