"You can always get better faster service if you pay more." - Just because that's how things are now doesn't mean its ideal or the only way. Benjamin Franklin

"You can always get better faster service if you pay more." - Just because that's how things are now doesn't mean its ideal or the only way. Benjamin Franklin while an unrepentant capitalist, tempered that with protestant values and a sense of civic duty. Allowing money to control how critical social functions work: elections, medicine, education directly undermines them. Maybe you could pick one of those things from your list and try to find ways to make it better both for the individual and the common good.