"You would expect material and rhetorical dominance to correlate highly. At least in the modern world, however, they don’t. Indeed, the correlation is plausibly negative: The groups with high material dominance now tend to have low rhetorical dominance."https://www.econlib.org/dominance-material-vs-rhetorical/ …
This is why we need to restrict money from influencing politics, to cement the dominance of those Masters of rhetoric.