What most troubles me about this whole ordeal: The lack of upper limits on wealth accumulation by an individual means that a single person can eventually directly control enough funds to simply decide one day to buy one of the world's largest communication channels. No one here seems to have a problem with this. For as much as the tech community generally despises generational-wealth families like the Waltons, or for…
Noam Chomsky would say - have you being paying attention? In a “capitalist society” the real power lies with the rich. The clue is in the name.
The political leaders are controlled by the rich, because they rely on their money, so your idea that the people can vote for a better politician is incorrect - nearly all the time, the winning candidates are essentially chosen by the rich.
That’s Chomsky anyway, I’m reading him at the moment, but it’s hard to argue against.