Increasingly I think the answer is to regulate the public relations & advertising industry. I'm not sure what exactly that looks like in a free society, but it's the root cause of seemingly all of our problems and I can't seem to come up with any benefits it really has on society.
What we need to do is eliminate the incentive to build these influence networks - and the primary incentive is that politicians, companies etc... want to pay to push some kind of agenda.
What we need to do is eliminate the incentive to build these influence networks - and the primary incentive is that politicians, companies etc... want to pay to push some kind of agenda.