Switzerland sadly is one of the most corrupt countries
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I thought that decentralization there which seem quite advanced (compared to France for instance) was an effective limitation to concentration of power and corruption... Is it just a nice facade ?
Great ideas are worth nothing if executed by bad individuals 🙈. Covid showed it extremely well. The decentralization is indeed a facade, for every decentralized aspect they have ways to override it nationaly and voting results are ignored or misinterprered.
The technocrat politicians always get what they want, they repeat until they win - e.g. the majority in 🇨🇠voted against a swiss electronic id, but the parliament just drafted another electronic id instead - under a different name. We now have to recollect enough signatures so that the citizens get to vote. Collecting signatures for such a "Referendum" is a lot of work, unpaid voluntary work. The technocrats have an easy way to game the system via bruteforce.
Well, I guess it is everywhere the same... Do you think DAOs could be an answer to that ?
I'm curious as well regarding corruption in Switzerland. Could you give more detail?
One good read for you might be: https://dudeweblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/helvetien-die-aristokratie-der-chefbeamten/
(There is a machine translation feature in the right side bar)
Another one, if you prefer books:
Thing is, most articles with a critical mindset about switzerland you gonna find, are written in German 🙈