[TomDavey]

You just described the thesis of one of the wisest books I've ever read, Albert O. Hirschman's 1970 classic "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty

[cutemonster]

Thanks! I read the whole Wikipedia page and a bit more (this far), started thinking about the book.

[cutemonster]

Btw that book explains why sometimes a police force or the military in a country can be recklessly violent, and consist largely of men who happily do all sorts of atrocities