You’re can’t have power distributed widely if you concentrate it narrowly. It’s the simplest fucking thing.
What if we give all billionaires so much money they will become trillionaires ? Will that save democracy?
We can raise taxes on the middle class and cut social services and education!
It’s okay, soon we won’t have Billionaires.
They’ll all be Trillionaires.
The author could totally rehash the ancient Athenian arguments, as their flavour of democracy was Sortition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition . They (e.g. Aristotle, Plato) argued against elections - because rich and wealthy would capture them and take over the government, perverting it to further enrich themselves. The only way to have a democratic body was to select Senate (slight simplification, read the wiki for details) at random from all adult citizens.
This has been known to humanity for over 2500 years.
This concludes my democracy talk.
