Reddit mentions of Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

If you say so. But if you want to read an actual academic study on what lobbying can and can't accomplish, here's a good one for you:

https://smile.amazon.com/Lobbying-Policy-Change-Wins-Loses/dp/0226039455?sa-no-redirect=1

The truth is much more complicated than this 6 minute video lets on.

I highly recommend reading Lobbying and Policy Change by Baumgartner Et al.

The short and thick of it is that lobbying isn't just a money game. Entrenched interests beat all but the most massive sums of money backed by the most organized lobbying groups. Even when you can array the money, intellectual capital, and manhours towards an issue you want to change the issue is only partially reframed around 5% of the time. You can ban the money tomorrow and it is unlikely to solve our problems.

It kind of seems like your understanding of how Congressional lobbying and interest group politics actually works comes from watching House of Cards and not actual research.

"Something that everyone already knows." If you're talking about private interests have a disproportionate influence on policy agenda or political outcomes, most data suggests that this has been massively overblown, and there is no correlation between money donated to the political sphere and the success of lobbying efforts. I recommend reading Lobbying and Policy Change by Baumgartner et al, its a fantastic piece of work that really helps explain the current state of Congressional lobbying.