> The disease are politicians willing to create laws that do not serve the public. If they didn't exist, private actors would have no leg to stand on. That's th

> The disease are politicians willing to create laws that do not serve the public. If they didn't exist, private actors would have no leg to stand on. That's the disease. NOT the private actors. I think you're still describing the symptom. These politicians are also "actors", part of a system. It's not that there are too many bad politicians and not enough good ones. It's the socio-political system which is designed so that companies and people who own large amounts of money - capitalists if you will - have much more influence on the political process than most people, individually and even combined. However, when we generalize to this level - it becomes exceedingly difficult to attack the root cause rather than the symptoms.