Comment by klipt
1 day ago
Would be nice to have anti corruption measures to prevent this kind of decentralized corruption.
But I don't think dismantling the government and giving the pieces to Musk is the solution to corruption. That just sounds like more centralized corruption.
How, exactly, do you excise entrenched corruption smoothly? The corrupt people are going to do everything they can to stop you and protest loudly in the process.
The current problem is corruption but the real problem is that corruption will always happen when the power is there. The only way to prevent it is to not place the power at that level in the first place.
Limited power is the only anti-corruption tool that works.
Limiting the power of the goverment also freqently involves corruption, companies bribing politicans to avoid popular safety and labor regulations
I think you are missing the point. Corruption is inevitable. Limiting the scope of the government restricts the scope of possible corruption.
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Increased transparency might help, together with empowering voters to get rid of corrupt politicians.
Unfortunately right now the opposite seems to be happening, Trump funneled US taxpayer money (and foreign government money) into Mar-a-Lago his whole first term and still got reelected.
Musk is corruption. He does not want to solve it, he is literally trying to ensure it happens more and without any risk.