Bill Clinton was not born rich. This is the most recent US example. Demorcray is not a perfect system, because human beings have yet to reach perfection. Is the wisdom of the people always correct? This has yet to be proved, even if citizens are only the aristocratic elite, as it was in ancient Athens.

The flowering of Athenian genius occuried durring a period of time when individuality was greatly prized and esteemed. No other ancient civilization produced this. It is what separates the eastern mind set from the western.