Law professor Lawrence Lessig is a brilliant purveyor of parables. He came to TED in 2013 to argue that America’s political process had become irredeemably corrupted by money. He had us imagine a foolish country called Lesterland in which only the people named Lester were able to vote. Clearly that would be ridiculous. But then he pointed out that the number of people named Lester in the US is about the same as the number of significant political funders. And that members of Congress have their priorities largely set by those funders, so that effectively it’s only the funders whose views and
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