Yes. Class privilege is real. That is where my privilege comes from - having parents able to send me to a private school. Economic class does correlate with race/ethnicity to a certain extent but not with gender & not consistently with race. Many of my classmates South Asian https://twitter.com/ineedmoretea/status/944741847502655488 …
Empirically, the difficulty of setting incentives for governance correctly increases with the hierarchical depth and size of the governed unit. Longer and less transparent regulation loops have more slack and attack surface for parasitic forces.