The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. - Robert Payne

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.