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by tootallgavin 1420 days ago
> The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws

that will happen regardless of the monetary incentive

> that benefit someone's personal finances.

I don't know how to contextualize this. There should be no slaves.

> "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"

Hopefully, they are invested in their community, their city, their county, their state, their country. I don't know where you want to go with this. Obviously some people are... invested differently. Don't vote for these people

> You're looking at this from the wrong direction

we have different viewpoints, this why it seems this way