Money is power and a person yielding large amounts of power which wasn't granted democratically can easily be seen as unethical as any other non democratic sour

Money is power and a person yielding large amounts of power which wasn't granted democratically can easily be seen as unethical as any other non democratic source of power. One can argue that a free market is kind of like democracy, but how money and politics mix is contentious exactly because money in politics is seen by many as a degradation to a 'good' and fair representative democracy.