The difference is that the lobbyists that the billionaires hire is an expert on policy, and your average broke homeless has never looked at the text of a law. H

The difference is that the lobbyists that the billionaires hire is an expert on policy, and your average broke homeless has never looked at the text of a law. Hell, do you think that any legislator who spends 90% of their time virtue signaling or politicking has read the ~1000 pages of the CARES Act or ACA before voting on it? They outsource much of this work to lobbyists. Voters demand things like free antivirals and lower gas prices, and they shut up when politicians superficially satisfy these demands while doing the minimal due diligence, so corporate lobbyists can take advantage of this. When people genuinely care about things after than virtue signaling about caring, they are able to using lobbying as a force of good, which is how we got Civil Rights and the Clean Air Act.