i don’t think you can. money is power — that’s really all it is. you can’t eat it, but you can use it to get other people to surrender food to you. no matter what you do with say campaign finance law, i don’t think you can stop billionaires from influencing media, academia, etc to shape politics. 1/

that’s not to say we shouldn’t try to improve campaign finance laws. they can help at the margin. but they won’t be enough while billionaire “philanthropy” also shapes endowed chairs in, say, economics, and a thousand other levers that affect how we collectively think and understand. /fin