Paul Krugman

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/sunday/inequality-america-paul-krugman.html
But while you shouldn’t be too much of a cynic, it remains true that America is less of a democracy and more of an oligarchy than we like to think. And to tackle inequality, we’ll have to confront unequal political power as well as unequal income and wealth.