The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws that benefit someone's personal finances. You're looking at this from the wrong direction - instead of asking "why shouldn't they be able to invest based on their knowledge", ask "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"
> The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws
that will happen regardless of the monetary incentive
> that benefit someone's personal finances.
I don't know how to contextualize this. There should be no slaves.
> "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"
Hopefully, they are invested in their community, their city, their county, their state, their country. I don't know where you want to go with this. Obviously some people are... invested differently. Don't vote for these people
> You're looking at this from the wrong direction
we have different viewpoints, this why it seems this way