[philipallstar]

> If you assume that decision makers operate entirely in silo from their constituents then yes, that's how this works.

Most places have two parties, each of which has a position on several thousand issues. You have two choices: combination A of the several thousand issues, or combination B. You don't get to choose with any more granularity than that.

> not to mention the massive power imbalance that results from people with lots of money 'voting' way more than people with less money

This is a power rectification. If you have two streaming services and one is bad, that bad one will fairly quickly receive far less money as people vote with their wallets. That's not rich people with thousands of accounts "voting" for the winner, it's just a more direct system of people choosing with money.

Politics has a far stronger link to an individual's money swaying decisions than that.