Well, I can recommend a few books by e.g. Thomas Sowell that I'm pretty sure refute whatever model some rando on youtube armed with an opinion has. Come back wh

Well, I can recommend a few books by e.g. Thomas Sowell that I'm pretty sure refute whatever model some rando on youtube armed with an opinion has. Come back when you've read them, although if you don't want to understand that's also fine... this is not how discussions work. You actually have to present an argument, not expect someone to watch an 18 minute video from a rando. > If Bezos can buy the cops, should we get rid of cops so he can't exercise power through cops? Exactly! Well, almost. Ideally, the powers they have should be treated as baseline evil, and then there should be a good argument for any of them being a /necessary/ evil - e.g. is the alternative actually, obviously worse; at the very least, the powers should be restricted and defined as much as possible, so that there's the least possible room to stretch and abuse them. EDIT: I realized I responded kinda out of context after that. As per above, Bezoses bribing govt actors has historically been much less less of a concern than govt actors just abusing power of their own accord; and when Bezoses do abuse power via govt actors, the main reason is that govt actors have lots of power, wide discretion, complex easy to obfuscate rules, etc. With cops, drug prohibiyion is a great example - rife for abuse and selective enforcement. Remove the power, and it becomes much harder to abuse.