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You may be misinterpreting what brandonr is saying. It's about increasing transparency for influencing elections and restricting (overtly) how much influence money has in elections.

Reducing the powers of money is tough (and kind of a game of whack a mole) but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

Well it’s not possible to do it 100%, but I think the problem is less the illegal trade of money for power and more the legal one. Campaign finance laws (which at this point probably require an amendment to the constitution) could help a lot.

> making money less able to purchase power

you could achieve this by: giving everyone a basic amount of money, so they are on a more equal footing to benefit from opportunities.