No one said trickle down economic is perfect, but the top picture still represents it better than the bottom one.
I used to work in the bottom of this pyramid by producing ressource for manufacturing that would got through 6 more businesses before becoming an endproduct.
And the money goes down to us through the same 6 businesses to pay us workers.
If a felon can run it prevents that the politicians can not just throw their rivals in prison,
If felons can not vote it prevents that they don´t just vote for the politicans that would grant them amnesty.