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I think you might be getting too caught up in people, rather than interests. Even if no individual retains power, you could still have a particular interest (a
by concordDance 3y ago
I think you might be getting too caught up in people, rather than interests.
Even if no individual retains power, you could still have a particular interest (a corporation, a guild, an industry body, an ethnicity) corrupting the legislative, executive or judicial functions of government in their favour.
- XorNot 3y agoBut that's just replacing one system in the consideration for another. An organization isn't a person, much like a government is. While it might have persistence, it's a gestalt of the individuals fulfilling different functions within it. The idea that an organization can corrupt a government is just expressing the same issue: the system gets exploited to the extent that exploitation is possible.