Who are the most powerful people in society? Do we all have an equal chance of power?

this will be the shortest answer I have ever written. The peopel than can manipilate the rich, our government and the poor are the most powerful. Since < idiont need any legal entanglements with live people, I will use a couple of dead ones: Carnagie, Mellon, Duponts, even Joseph Kennedy. They manipulate the rich through the government , the government through the poor (voters) and the poor through the rich (jobs),

The rich have the most power in society. We don't have equal chances of being rich. Society tries to placate those who are being shafted by telling them they have equal chances.

Government. We do not all have an equal chance because of the money they are able to (and have to) spend to become elected.

the rich. no