> you have to figure out how to fully ban any other form of lobbying by the rich In fact, if a society could work out how to do that, they should do that first

> you have to figure out how to fully ban any other form of lobbying by the rich In fact, if a society could work out how to do that, they should do that first, and then they might find that all these "let rich people have more voting power" proposals would coincidentally disappear. > it's a Republic, after all, not a Democracy Please don't perpetuate that awful meme. A country can be both, and the US is only "not a democracy" under the most idiosyncratic definition of "democracy". https://mises.org/wire/stop-saying-were-republic-not-democracy https://mises.org/wire/stop-saying-were-republic-not-democra... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/is-u-s-republic-or-democracy-why-some-conservatives-pick-a-side https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/is-u-s... https://thebaffler.com/latest/were-a-republic-not-a-democracy-burmila https://thebaffler.com/latest/were-a-republic-not-a-democrac...