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.
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themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoAnd that’s why politican salaries should be caped. Everyone can be corrupted, even if they started good.
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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.