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Right, the corrupt thing is when lobbyists are listened to in a way that is proportional to some parameter besides the number of people they represent and when groups of people without the means to hire a lobbyist go unheard.

I think we need better infrastructure for tracking who is operating on who's behalf so we can build systems that fix these problems.

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We absolutely want politicians to listen to lobbyists in a way that is proportional to some parameter besides the number of people they represent. The should listen to who is right, not which lobby represents the most members. Self-interested groups lobby for bad legislation all the time. When the harm to society is diffuse, they don't always have a large lobby opposing them.

Certainly somebody needs to identify cases when a minority voice needs disproportional consideration because they happen to be onto something special. But it's the job of an elected official to make that determination only after they have considered their options in a proportional-to-population way.

If you try to handle nuances like that up front, and somehow select for who gets the politician's attention on the basis of some parameter besides population, you're going to end up with a government that only works for the rich, because they are disproportionally able to game such things.

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