I imagine that technological solutions to the plutocracy would be more effective if aimed at creating mechanisms that prevent the plutocrats from acting against

I imagine that technological solutions to the plutocracy would be more effective if aimed at creating mechanisms that prevent the plutocrats from acting against the will of the citizens they are tasked with representing, instead of making it possible for non-plutocrats to become politicians. Tools that force transparency or promote it by changing the social norms in political offices are valuable, and are most likely to be effective at the city and state level, where it is much much harder to hide behind policies of national security. We're never going to get Congress, POTUS and SCOTUS to be transparent first, especially when any transparency solution will be disparaged as disadvantaging us against other countries. At the national level, people will claim that attempts at transparency are unpatriotic. At the city and state level, it's much harder to make claims against transparency.