Well yes, but it's probably intrinsic to human nature and civilization so there's not much we can do about it except accept a certain level of it. Is America to

Well yes, but it's probably intrinsic to human nature and civilization so there's not much we can do about it except accept a certain level of it. Is America today more corrupt than the Gilded Age in the late 1800's that Mark Twain wrote about? Probably less corrupt today. Things might never have been better according to Steven Pinker in his books Enlightenment Now and The Better Angels of Our Nature