[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

If you go back to the "roots" of it all (Victorian times, and then really ramping up in the mid 20th century) it's quite simple really. A lot of these groups / families who end up in things live politics, pharma, the more political side of medicine etc. all have had their fingers in the same old pies for generations.

Yep - any position which gives them power and the opportunity to preserve the Status Quo and increase their own personal wealth.