Institutions and organizations ought not to be architected in a manner that makes them useful to the corrupt. This is the defining failure of 20th century west

Institutions and organizations ought not to be architected in a manner that makes them useful to the corrupt. This is the defining failure of 20th century western governments. They were so "all in" and had so much public support they shape shifted themselves into these things that are magnets for the corrupt and self serving (and arguably tempt their leaders to become those things).