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by the_solenoid
1778 days ago
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We don't punish white collar crime for the same reasons. If you made it illegal to get outside money for politicians, and made the punishment significant, the rats would scurry and "normal" people could get involved in the process. The way it works now we just get rich people looking after rich people problems because theres no way to overcome all the money flowing around with any regular success. We can try to change government, but do a quick thought experiment: how many resources does it take to manage shared infrastructure and services for 20 people? 200? 2000? 20,000? 200,000? 2,000,000? Go on up to 350mil. It's not easy, and you can't just "tear it down". You can envision some ways to streamline some things, but the problem is just mind boggling gigantic. |
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