It’s an incomplete statement if you leave out the “why”. Lobbying. If that were regulated and corporation money didn’t indirectly buy votes through ad-spent but votes were won through actual policies and independent voter thinking, representatives would represent what voters (or a slice of them) wanted.

As it stands, they win elections by catering to a very, very small slice that can bring them into power: Corporations. Their donations are a more sure-fire bet to winning elections than trying to win over regular people.

At the same time price transparency & monopoly restrictions is fundamental for a working capitalism.

Without that there will be no proper self regulating marked and all the points why capitalism is supposed to work will not uphold anymore.

Yep, it’s a definite ying and yang. Sapiens (the book) spends a few very interesting chapters on the inner workings of this dynamic and how it shaped the world as we know it.