Powers that be - money concentration vs. democracy

-> written in reply to Bogus Copyright Claim Silences Yet Another Larry Lessig YouTube Presentation [1] on techdirt [2].

This shows painfully how power is shifting currently:

• <5% of the people have >90% of the resources.
• So the <5% have more influence on the media.
• The media influences which people are elected into positions of power.
• Then these elected pass laws which shift more resources and power towards the <5%.

So the simple root of the problem is that money gets concentrated on a few people, and any self-respecting (intelligent) democracy would have to make sure that money can't accmulate too much like that.¹

But guess who doesn't want laws which prevent or revert overboarding money concentration.

This is a conflict which a democracy cannot avoid. It checks whether a given democratic system can stand the test of time.