The very first thing that should have been written into the constitution of the United States of America is the total abolishment of money and any other arbitrary means of globally defining the value of an individual person or legally active entity. Period. Even if the attempt at such a society utterly failed we would have, at the very least, had even a fraction of a chance for change. Not having made that a priority for the American nation merely made Americans nothing more than younger version of every other country ever, doomed to repeat exactly the same story of greed and selfishness. We are nothing more than a people who were fed up with one king-of-the-hill only to go find another hill and make another stupid king. We simply traded religious dictatorship for wealthy dictatorship. You shouldn't need to be a genius to figure out that you can't have equality without actually being equal.