Comment by tastyfreeze
1 day ago
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.
Limiting the scope of the government restricts the scope of possible government corruption.
But there's still corporate corruption. Corruption among charities. Corruption among churches. Etc.
There are trade offs everywhere. If you make your government too small to bust monopolies, then you end up with a country beholden to giant corrupt monopolies.
Its not inevitable at least at scale. You can build a good goverment with transperancy and minimal corruption. Its just hard.
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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.