Can the same not be applicable to every other democracy out there?

So in terms of superpower, obviously the rich are going to get maximal benefits and it will always tower over the dingy dark lit poor colonies. This is exactly what the cyberpunk genre has been always showing.

Part of it we are and thus we have to how we can use the situation to our advantage, always have the ambition to grow further and develop and we can also become an actual superpower country.