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Sounds like an operational risk on an RCM somewhere in the ivory tower. Instead it's cheaper to stay competitive through regulatory capture. I wish bribing politicians was more expensive than providing a better product </r>

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So we need to elect greedier politicians who wont accept a pittance as a bribe. </s>

Or just create a system that selects from a pool of already independently wealthy candidates.

People don't become "independently wealthy" by saying no to money, they do it by grasping at every bit they can. Wealth is positively, not inversely, correlated to greed. We literally just saw what happens when you put an "independently wealthy" in the oval office, he took a 10 million dollar bribe to greenlight an oil pipeline.

Cap political donations per person and ban corporate donations. Money is not, and should not be legally considered, speech.

So... we should select politicians from the poor, then?

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