(Example is based on US politics, but could apply to any equally corrupt government) In this day and age, it’s clear that rampant corruption is abound with mega corporations buying up politicians with relative pennies they found under their couches.

When words and calls to action fail. Why are there no crowdfunded grassroots movements that actively try to play the same bribery game. If anything, to finally shine a light on how broken the system is.

If the dollar has a voice, why not let the people’s dollars speak?

Of course, this is clearly a terrible idea long term for any system to work like this, plus a bit of a race to the bottom.

The question is more along the line of: Has anyone actually tried this? If so, why/why not?

Be civil please.

  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    I think the main reason is that your average working class person, even if they have the money to contribute to that, doesn’t have the time and energy to get involved in politics. Looking at history, most people seem to be happy as long as they have food on the table, a roof over their heads, and some pretty basic rights, and only start to act when something big goes wrong, usually famines, but also things like plagues and cases of injustice that a lot of people hear & care about.

    The reasons I think this doesn’t happen:

    • most people don’t have enough interest, time, energy
    • a lot of people don’t have enough money to contribute
    • this would require lots of organization and connecting to others who agree with the idea
    • it’d probably be easy to get caught, and a lot of the time (especially in countries where corruption is widespread) poor people will get punished harsher than the ruling class.
    • even if you somehow were able to do this despite the points above, it still probably wouldn’t be enough; the gap between the average and a billionare is incomprehensibly huge. Less than ten people have more wealth than half of the world’s population.