Comment by rat87
1 day ago
Limiting the power of the goverment also freqently involves corruption, companies bribing politicans to avoid popular safety and labor regulations
1 day ago
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.
Only worked in smaller countries, ie states. Limit the power of federal government and you can get pretty nice states, and you wouldn't have to worry about someone like Trump.
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