Supreme Court decision

[Johann]

Elite bureaucrats, billionaire tech company owners, oil tycoons etc, will marry themselves and their cronies into massive wealth, like never seen before. They will all prevent competition by bring back the old feudal system.

This could make an excellent fantasy novel.

Rich people can marry whomever they want, right now. Church or Civil, as they choose. So can the rest of us. Nobody needs marriage to stifle competition or control assets. They use corporations to do that, every day.

Potential fiction-talent here. Puts me in mind of "Strange Empire."

J.