How would you design a governance system that allows people to pay for the policies they want (direct bribery) but doesn't become a plutocracy (where only the rich have a voice)?

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

pretty easy actually-
1member: 1vote and financial returns/dividends are proportional to $ staked/invested/provided

hard part-
getting to 1member (aka Sybil resistance or equiv)

did not know about redacted cartel. Hmm, but won't the rich be the ones that can best bribe the voters?

yup! Didn’t redacted cartel make an entire product out of briberies for treasuries? bribes/influence are just a tool for opinion formation? I believe it will almost always exist hand in hand with all voting structures b/c humans would want to discuss and talk?

Thoughts on zk-applications that introduce secret ballots like MACI? The voter cannot prove what they voted for and can only prove the fact that they voted. This would prevent bribery between untrusted parties, but not necessarily between trusted parties.

https://privacy-scaling-explorations.github.io/maci/