> In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference. Yes and no. We delegate power to representatives to mediate that difference, and they ultimat

> In a democracy, the voters are responsible for that difference. Yes and no. We delegate power to representatives to mediate that difference, and they ultimately delegate it to a bureaucracy, hopefully filled by experts in a particular area. These bureaucracies are then funded proportional to the quality of voter chosen leadership. So I would say voters are responsible for choosing the level of corruption when they vote, but our votes are red or blue, we don't get any kind of say in resource distribution past that unless we are beauracracy/institution participants ourselves.