no, absolutely not. i think zillionaires fund charities and think tanks and just random activities with a wink to do whatever political work they want. campaign finance reform wouldn’t have prevented Leonard Leo’s well funded purchase of the Supreme Court. that becomes the model. costs more, oh well

(fox news evades campaign finance law for example. as does x, whatever musk does to the algorithm. it’s just too leaky a bucket to prevent purchase of democratic politics by accumulations of capital at this scale.)