Here's another unpopular view: I don't think our society is anywhere near a maxima in terms of corruption. Anybody who has studied political history carefully, would find themselves disabused of this notion quite quickly.

There is this strange element in many of these conversations which comes down to what I've previously called the "denial of progress", which appears to be born partly of ignorance for the problems of the past, and a human tendency to always think things are getting worse. Even when it's not true by any objective measure.