Democracy is incompatible with power concentration. Excessive wealth easily translates into power, thus, it breaks the balance of any democracy.

There’s also a saying that “Democracy cannot exist while people are hungry”, because a common complaint is that “poor people vote with their stomachs”.

Pulpy, but I’d go with Tabasco Aztlan

Reminds me of a joke, that the only reason the brits didn’t move the pyramids of Giza back to London was because they are too heavy