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The other day I got a massive tariff from the police, alleging that my parking was somehow wrong. This is a free country, I can park where I want.

I have seen = at least one exists.

Refute that...

You could also say that power corrupts, money brings power therefore money corrupts.

You'd only really get an answer looking at trends and statistics. In my personal experience, people who have been through hardship develop empathy. They can become rich afterwards or stay poor, but most people tend to keep that empathy.

There are political parties in the world today speaking of remigration based on citizenship of family up to 3 or 4 generations. The data from 23andme would fit this purpose perfectly.

Try reading some on history from the 1940s, ask yourself if that might happen again, and reevaluate what your parent post says.

This is disingenuous at best. It's not just anectodal evidence. People are concerned with the clear trend. Abuse of visitors is increasing indiscriminately, where will it stop?

You overestimate managerial competence and underestimate misaligned incentives and the ability of people to justify the existence of their jobs by inflating the importance of useless tasks to management.

Relationships between an individual and a corporation are fundamentally asymmetrical. They can only be made equal by heavily favouring the single human side.

People, culture, values, morals and ethics predate law. The code of Hammurabi reflects those aspects of ancient Babylon.

Law must reflect to some degree and scope, the morals of its culture or people. If this does not happen for enough time and affects enough people, then you see a regression to tribal or vigilante justice.

Law is a form of centrally managed punishments that strongly influence individuals to behave according to the local population's values, morals and ethics.

What if a small class of people with enough resources, wit and motivation can hack this system to their favor? How will the rest of the population react when they realize this had been going on for years? Will they be able to "patch the bug" in the code of law and stop the exploiters?

What happened with the CEO of a system that is antithetical to American values, culture and morals, is an individual workaround to a long running lethal bug ignored by the maintainers of the code of law. This was ignored because the maintainers are a cog in the machine of that small class.

I agree with law and democracy, but we may no longer have that since the bigger population has no agency to shape laws. We may just have some other unnamed system that on the surface looks like law and democracy, but under the hood seems to be an oligarchy.

Bad analogy, a student is not being evaluated for a position where he controls the lives of millions.

10 people were competing for president, a position with significant power. Whoever you elect will have powers immediately so you cannot afford to kick cheaters out after the fact, only before.

This election game is played in two rounds. If you find a cheater before the first round, what happens if you remove him? There's 9 left. What about in the second round where it's 1v1? You just gave away the presidency to last candidate.

Romania acted too late in kicking the cheater out. Maybe there were reasons for that, but this means re-running the elections without the cheater might be the lesser evil.

Nobody will declare war on their neighbour when they depend on them for food and other essential resources.

The EU addresses resource and cultural motivations.

NATO intimidates countries that already want to take resources from their neighbours.

NATO has its merit as well, but the EU is unarguably one of the main reasons why EU countries have not even begun to think about creating military conflict within member states since the 1950s.