Re: Elite democracy — Are we really “free to elect”?
The members of parliament and congress in US and UK are on average richer than average Americans or Britishers. There are two major differences though:
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Most of the rich representatives are self-made business people, not feudal lords who also control the social, economic and religious lives of their ‘subjects’.
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The representatives in US and UK are subject to the same laws as ‘street people’.
Median net-worth of a US representative is about a million dollars, which in my estimate is actually lower than Pakistani counterparts and only 9 times higher than average households in US. A typical Pakistani representative would have wealth at least 9,000 times higher than an average Pakistani household.