Capitalism: Servant or Master?

New York Times today had an article today about the unequal representation of the United States population in its Senate and how that affects the ability of the people to govern themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/11/us/politics/democracy-tested.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

This article echoes a concern raised last year in my book "Capitalism: Servant or Master?" p.83

"Corporations also have an easy way to penetrate their power into the United States Senate. Consider that the 2 and a half million people who live in the states of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota and Alaska have the same voting power in the senate as the 100 million people who live in California, Texas, New York and Florida. To put it another way, each person in Wyoming has the same clout in our Senate as 70 Californians. Or put another way, the top nine states in population contain slightly more than half of the total population of America. But they are represented by only 18 of the 100 senators. Or to put it still another way, the twenty-five lowest-population states contain less than one-sixth of the total population. But they have half the senators - the other half of the senate represents 5/6 of the US population. " http://www.johnhwomack.com/John_Womack/Capitalism.html