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by andrepd 1361 days ago
If you proposed that people could buy extra votes in elections, at say 100$ a pop, virtually everyone would call it an affront to democracy, as rightly so. Yet it is precisely what happened when it comes to governance of joint-stock companies.
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> virtually everyone would call it an affront to democracy, as rightly so

Except that's how our government works too, the votes just aren't official and they're _far_ more effective.