How can we invest without giving up democratic control over our money?

I don’t want this post to sound too political, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the implications of investing in broad global ETFs. For most of my adult life, I’ve invested in all-world ETFs like VWCE, mostly through US-owned asset managers such as Vanguard, Invesco, and others. For a long time, I saw this as a simple and rational way to invest: low-cost, diversified, passive, and accessible. It's also what... I heard was the "wisest" way to do it. But over the last few months, especially afte