The world isn’t fair to begin with, but what has made it worse is the incredible amount of power that is now held by those who are superrich or well-connected, to control the narrative in their favor, and to essentially silence all those who could upset that construct, for they don’t have the social reach or connections to make an impact.
The thing about social surveillance is that it has never been easier than today, to surveil somebody, best done thru that person’s compromised phone, and once another party compromises a phone, they have a wealth of information, that can be exploited for their own advantage, along with the salient fact they know exactly where a person is, at all times and what they are doing. Having that sort of insight upon anyone is incredibly powerful, and it need not be used immediately, for such information secured is available for those who have control of it and can be thus utilized at their discretion.
So too, when the superrich behave badly and are caught at it, they still have the way and means to control that narrative through legal threats, non-disclosure agreements, or just about anything in which they can assert their leverage in a way and manner that they get what they want, for a price, in one form or another. After all, it’s not a fair fight when a regular individual finds themselves to have been abused or taken advantage of by a powerful personage and can’t get justice, because that powerful person has all the right connections to see that the matter is typically resolved in their favor, and when severely outgunned, most normal people are going to lose interest in the fight, because they don’t see that there is going to be justice, so they give up the fight.
All of the above means that, quite clearly, this is not a level playing field, for it favors the rich and powerful over regular folks. This signifies that there clearly is the law as applied to those who are the elite, and a completely different set of rules and laws for those who don’t have those sorts of connections. This makes for a world of inequality, injustice, and unfairness. After all, if this government will not play its essential part to see that money does not matter, by asserting the rule of law squarely, even when inconvenient, then the nation as a whole is weaker for this.
When the rich and powerful are in essence, above the law, then there isn’t any real reason for the rest of the population to believe that playing fair and following the rules actually is the correct or right thing to do, because they can see that the game is completely unfair and unjust, which leads then to many a person having contempt for the rule of law, because the law is one thing for those that are rich and powerful, and something completely different for those that are not. This would seem to signify that this is not a nation of, for, and by the people, but instead is structured for those who are the richest and most powerful to exploit everyone else to their heart’s desire.