And that’s why politican salaries should be caped. Everyone can be corrupted, even if they started good.
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoMusks resources could do.
That’s the thing. That’s an oxymoron. One can’t have musks resources and be a good person. To get such resources, one has, by design, to be the kind of person who thrives in Capitalism. Evil.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Political salaries are more or less caped. It is campain financing that is the issue and lack of IRV. It is also the lack of some term limits or maybe age limits. We have too many fossils in congress that have not brought younger people along, Also too many old presidents, In my lifetime Reagon, Biden. and Trump were too old.
We also do not choose the best leaders Nixon was not capable at the end and Clinton was just inappropriate in the workplace those these were personnal issues. Then there is the question of which ones were even up to the job.
sqgl@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
In Australia the politicians get token board positions at the corporations whom they legislate in favour of.
It requires trust: the corporation has to have a reputation in following through with these very indirect bribes.
Even if Renewables corps wanted to play the same game, they could not cannot compete with oil and coal corps.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Maybe people can be corrupted. But I think it’s selection biases. If you’re the type of person to fuck people over to earn money (big buisness) or to seek power above others (politics), maybe you were corrupted in the first place? I mean it’s hard to make it in either of those without doing a lot of morally questionable stuff.
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Exactly. Having obscene wealth means he already went through a sorting out process which shows without a doubt that he has some kind of mental problem like NPD, psychopathy, or sociopathy. Normal people when they get a few million bucks will start spending more time with their families, pursuing their hobbies, etc.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
There tends to be truth in that You do not get mega weathy without stealing the money from someone either legally or otherwise.
Not all wealthy people are total crap though. Then there are those that were not great in thier earning years and then try to patch it up with philanthropy later.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Philanthropy has always been a way for the wealthy to whitewash themselves of the evil that made them wealthy. It’s never designed to actually fix the things they broke and the lives they ruined. Look into it’s history from its start with the robber barons. Look how bill gates is giving millions in philanthropy and yet “somehow” grows still more wealthy and controls immense amounts of agricultural land. It’s another capitalist ploy.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
And yet the American people vote for this. Hard to get IRV through. Hard to get election finance reform. Both parties complicit but MAGA is blatant about it.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yes, both parties are complicit in the state of things. This is how ejection (don’t) work.