The Law and it's benifactors

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Inherently bias? Not unless you view the rich and the government as the same thing. Laws exist both to keep those in power, in power, but also for the safety and well being of the citizens, which are mostly the poor. Its more about keeping the population as a whole safe and happy, when this fails we get revolts and changes in policy.

Now as for law in practice, its less that laws are more lenient to the rich, more that the law is to the benefit of the educated. The rich can simply afford the aid of people that best know how to turn the system to their advantage. A poor person with any competent lawyer would easily take a CEO dumb enough to not have any legal counsel.

If you mean the intent of the laws in strictly a civil sense, they actually help the poor more then the rich. Health and safety regulations, company liability, worker compensation, limitations on polluting, anti-trust laws, SEC in general, these things limit and restrict companies. Just look at the turn of last century if you want to see what it was like for workers before government started putting laws and restrictions on companies. Are their exceptions, of course but over all the poor and middle class have benefited more.