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I assume they mean to make sure the people who make the laws don't profit from them.

Kinda hard to do in practice.

It would also mean that it's impossible to gain power in goverment by money or by owning "things" (factories etc.).

Afaik historic greek democracy was more like that. People got into goverment by lottery. If you were chosen, you had to attend a 2 year training and then your spent 4 years in goverment.

It's called sortition[1] and I think it'd be a wonderful method of choosing the 2nd house in a bicameral legislature like the UK's. Imagine replacing all the lords and bishops who've been placed there by heredity or backscratching with people chosen by sortition. That'd really hold the elected politicians to account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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