Not only do we see that politicians, at least at the national and state levels, not have proper incentive structures to do what they are theoretically supposed to (represent their constituents’ interests and uphold rule of law), they actually have perverse incentives: the more wealth they can extract from the dying middle class, the more civil liberties they can purge to accumulate ever-greater power for their masters in the permanent bureaucracy, the greater their rewards — in the form of campaign cash, lucrative speaking engagements, lifetime appointments to corporate boards, etc.
Love the sentiment, and recognizing that despair is a sin... how do politicians fix this when the political/media class are owned outright by global corporations with 100 year plans?
Love the sentiment, and recognizing that despair is a sin... how do politicians fix this when the political/media class are owned outright by global corporations with 100 year plans?