Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 22 2022 06:02am)
'We' as in 'we, the observers of politics'.
Side note: money plays far less of a decisive role for political campaigns in Germany, yet our political leadership has "miraculously" ended up consisting of the servants of corporate interests for literally decades too - we're just coming from a different starting point, we have a more girthy social safety net and axing it would be politically toxic. Still, I'd have to go back something like 40 years to find any significant political decision in Germany that meaningfully hurt the super rich.
The wealthy have more than one tool at their disposal to influence politics. Money is a significant one, but not nearly the only one.
Pretty much the whole world followed Reagan's bullshit "deregulate and everything will be fine" mantra so I'm not surprised you have a similar situation in Germany.