The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.

I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.