The Dissident group positions

"... inequality violates moral values ... [and] ... also interacts with a money-driven political system to grant excessive power to the affluent."

"In short, those with power use it to insulate themselves from competitive forces by winning favorable tax treatment, government-protected market share and other forms of what economists call 'rent seeking.'"

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