Re:Designing the Facebook Company Brand
by thedudeabides5 on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:11PM
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"If you think about it, corruption is legal in the US through lobbies"
Well, whether we go so far as to say lobby = corruption, I think the idea is to bring more transparency and accountability to the general problem.
Any society with free movement of capital is going to have issues with accumulated economic capital impacting politics.
A democratic republic such as the USA hopes to address this issue by formalizing the channels the public can access the government.
Right now I'd give us a 5/10 on that scale.
Where's China on that scale? I don't have enough info to say...
Pretty much every major republican thinker (and by republican I mean in the tradition of republicanism, not the political party) has discussed the problem that these concentrations of wealth/power have for stable societies.
If you think about it, corruption is legal in the US through lobbies, and the larger and more powerful a company is, the easier it is for the company to influence policies and how the country is being run.