If people's votes were weighted against their tax bills, democracy would work. Especially if everyone could vote on new bills, most would get shot down within minutes of being put up for vote. These giant pieces of toilet paper they call 'bills' would be flagged as plagiarism, scams and the whales would make their rewards to zero so fast it would make you dizzy.

But because the democracy is not based on stake in the economy of a country, the poor, with their smaller share of the tax contribution, and the super rich, with their elaborate accounting schemes and lobbied tax exemptions, both get disproportionate power to affect the way decisions are made. The people who actually produce the most value, the middle class, have all their voting power stolen from them by these two groups, and the aristocracy also spends a lot of money to make sure these in real life worthless votes of the uneducated, often benefit-paid poor, vote for the politicians who continue this process of consolidation of power into the plutocracy riding on the back of ignorant, brainwashed fools who have no experience in trying to run a business within the regulatory environment legislated through this corrupt process.