"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

"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." Point! As for "democracy", I'm not particularly convinced the US is a democracy under any definition at this point, honestly, so I can't find it in myself to particularly care which flavor of democracy we most aren't.