Inequality breeds the corruption you’re talking about.
If a billionaire can come along and give a politician (or their campaign, or whatever loophole is used) a sum of money several magnitudes higher than what they earn in a year, and that same value being effectively a rounding error for the billionaire, you’re going to get lobbying and bribes. As the saying goes, everyone’s got a price.
You don’t get close to that rich by playing by the rules and being a nice person, so they’re not suddenly going to draw the line that they should behave ethically with governments—it’s just another business relationship they can leverage for profit.
You cannot solve political corruption whilst there is inequality. The people benefiting know this, and will lobby to protect or increase the inequality.
If everyone gets richer, but the inequalities are huge, inflation will keep making the bottom group miserable. A performant social safety net to force the redistribution is a possible solution to that.
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Inequality breeds the corruption you’re talking about.
If a billionaire can come along and give a politician (or their campaign, or whatever loophole is used) a sum of money several magnitudes higher than what they earn in a year, and that same value being effectively a rounding error for the billionaire, you’re going to get lobbying and bribes. As the saying goes, everyone’s got a price.
You don’t get close to that rich by playing by the rules and being a nice person, so they’re not suddenly going to draw the line that they should behave ethically with governments—it’s just another business relationship they can leverage for profit.
You cannot solve political corruption whilst there is inequality. The people benefiting know this, and will lobby to protect or increase the inequality.
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Billionaires can always find ways to bankroll their ideology, even if they can’t buy elected officials directly.
Jokes on you, the billionaire is the politician
If everyone gets richer, but the inequalities are huge, inflation will keep making the bottom group miserable. A performant social safety net to force the redistribution is a possible solution to that.
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