Of course money can buy anything and sometimes for very little.
Wooki
That would require political system changes like making party anonymous donations illegal, putting them all on registers and setting max legal amount to $1000 per entity or something realistic. Then change preference system. The list goes on. It's a system setup to bias corporate and "special" (rich) interest.
Don't forget every user generates a base income, for example from visiting and using boosted servers (other users pay), ad insights and other data mining
and if no one bought.
This isnt speculation here, they do, and they make A LOT from nitro subscriptions and server boosts.
Discord - Nitro
Went to church at templeos
Nitro makes plenty
Minecraft modpacks all the way baby. Just wish mojang never sold out
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And yet your claim is still pointless unlike this study
Of course he does, he's a bought man.