For those who don't believe the game is rigged watch "REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM."
He'll give you ten good reason why it is. The simple truth is that in a democracy the population would vote for a system that better redistributes the wealth in America. In capitalism the laws would not benefit big corporations and wealthy people. Anyone who lived through the financial crisis saw that the rich corporations were bailed out even though they made bad loans purposely. However the middle class who got loans they could not afford were left homeless and did not receive the kind of help corporations did. The belief that these corporation were too big to fail does not exist in capitalism. If as investors we make bad decisions we can't run to the government to bail us out, we have to suck it up.
My last comment is that, of all the things we learn in school, we are never taught how to manage money. We are now taught statistic on how wealth is created. It is up to the individual to figure out on his own. Why would the most important thing in life such as how to make your money work for you is not taught in school. We are not taught to be entrepreneurs in school, we are taught to learn a skill so that we can become soldiers in a corporation. People go to college, get in big debt, only to try to pay it off with a job that doesn't pay enough. This is not by chance. The rich don't have to worry about money or go to college because they were taught something poor and middle class people were not. They were taught how to make money work for them. So yes there is opportunity for poor and middle class to move up in their social class but only once they learn what the rich know. Once again the system is set up to keep people financially dumb. Bankers are not there to educate you on how your money can bring in better returns, they are there to make a profit so they will sell you instruments that make them lots of money at your expense. So next time you go to a financial adviser make sure they are not making money on commission because when that's the case they only make money when they sell you something. Instead pay them a percentage of the wealth you make so they have an incentive to make your money work harder.