spending isn't speaking.
when we spend money we are acting of necessity. we don't take risks with money unless we have so much of it that we can afford to lose it. but we can say whatever we want. a minority with this discretionary spending advantage can control the persuasion industry determining the outcomes of capitalistic democracy. the founders started it, with property requirements for voting, and their beneficieries are today's status quo.
spending isn't speaking, it's force. it's the world's most powerful force, the force of history. it's the ultimate arbitrary source in the non-biological world, i.e. the one under human control.
that's what inequality is about. by the way, i refer to it as "inequality," not "egalitarianism" or whatever. injustice is the way to know justice, so with inequality.
given it's nature as human fabrication, let's give up our alienation to it and retake it, but this time take conscious control of it, exercising moderation and prudence.
spending is a force for power. allow that force to be equally expended by everyone. that is how you achieve democracy.
"democracy" is always aristocracy because there is never equal force.
