" Twenty-six billion dollars of fraud: no felony cases. But when the stakes are in the hundreds of dollars, we kick in 26,000 doors a year, in just one county. You can drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how this makes sense, financial or otherwise. But it does make sense. It’s just not about money. It’s about fucking with people. It’s the logic of our new shadow government. It turns out that we’re too lazy to govern ourselves, so we’ve put society on bureaucratic autopilot—and autopilot turns out to be a steel trap for losers and a greased pipeline to money, power, and impunity for winners. This goes far beyond the oft-quoted liberal cliché about how we now have “two Americas,” one for the rich and one for the poor, with different sets of laws and "

― Matt Taibbi , The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap