CORRUPTION + WEALTH = US CONGRESS
As far as wealth goes, it can also often be an indicator of corruption--or the extent/degree thereof.
In the entire US Congress -the House of Representatives and the Senate-the wealthiest members-Darrell Issa & Micheal McCaul are worth btw 250-300 million-and that's definately a good indicator of corruption.  For example, McCaul's so wealthy primarily because his wife inherited 99% of their money as a child of Clear Channel Communications' founder.  No real surprise he's consistently supported consolidation in the communications industry and using the FCC to basically protect and guarantee the profitability of the few major communications companies..but in the  National"People's" Congress of China-the members don't even pretend to be unconcerned and the combined wealth of Issa and McCaul BOTH wouldn't even count in the top 100 of wealthiest members. So that indicates that China's government in general is corrupt, not just one or two or even twenty-members of it. Again using McCaul as an example of corruption, granted he's a pretty clear and obvious one, in China he'd not just have a family that made him wealthy that was concentrated in a particular industry..he's simply own part of that industry. In fact, in places that corrupt-where persons speaking out on behalf of women's rights are jailed as recently as last month-the fear and control that a member of that corrupt regime exercises would allow them to simply walk into any company and just take whatever they want.