From a UK perspective it's striking to see how laws lobbied for by the super rich seem to be so easily passed in the national legislature while any meaningfully improved rights and benefits for ordinary people hardly ever pass. It'd be an unthinkable state of affairs here—we'd call it corruption.

Glass houses, brit.

Given that we still haven't managed to get rid of leaseholds in England, I don't think we are as enlightened as you are claiming here. We're just as, if not more, corrupt.

You'd be right to call it that.