I share your sentiment, mostly, but I’d like to offer a slightly different take. Having money and a good lawyer will help to minimize the weight of the law coming down on you, but it will do little to save you, (absent corruption on the part of the prosecutors). As a current example: Jizz-Lane Maxwell has a great deal of money, and yet she’s gong to be spend most of the rest of her life, if not all of it, in jail. That Avananti character is another case in point. (And, I am well aware you could cite counter examples.) But, to my mind, the biggest imbalance, the biggest failing of our “equal justice” principle, is that the poor and unrepresented, face horrific, egregious consequences for even small infractions of the law.
There are issues of white collar crime being harder to prosecute, and the state typically has to prove intent, where the crimes poor people are charged with are crimes, regardless of state of mind, and thus making it far easier to gain convictions. The solution, I often feel is not always harsher laws for the wealthy, but gentler ones for the poor.
That said, of course, as @glowgirl has scolded me for, I am unreasonably in favor of much harsher punishment for sedition. Because, you know, if you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die; and that seem fair, to me.
