Rich is relative, but yes.
Discussion
Just to clarify. I'm not talking about the guy down the street with a hundred thousand dollar car and a three million dollar home.
I'm talking about the guys who have been pulling the strings on congress for decades.
Different ballgame.
But that guy might be pulling strings in local governments, no?
Very possible. My thinking is to deal with the big corruption first and work down from there.
Until the military industrial complex takes knee I only have one focus.
I've been thinking about this. I don't necessarily think capital influence in local government is a bad thing. Seems to be the natural order in many ways.
What worries me is global capital influencing the NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, Army, Marines, Navy, Airforce. It's a different order of magnitude.
Microcosm
Have you read Hans Hermann Hoppe?
Haven't read much on his thoughts, but I remember a podcast I listened to that was discussion on returning to monarchy's over democracy.... Because kings are less likely to do things to hurt their people because they'll be killed (horrible summary).
This? Or something else?
This is a little long lol...
I'm still working on understanding his arguments and I'm not sure that I agree with all of them, but his primary thesis seems to be that decentralized governance is better than large conglomerate states.
Of the three government structures he assesses (monarchy, democracy, and theoretical natural law) he says that democracy has the highest tendency towards corruption and societal collapse. Natural law would be his preference, but that system has not been created yet. So he tends to advocate for monarchy.
His thesis fits perfectly with The Soverign Individual thesis and with the Bitcoin ethos. However, I am cautious to advocate for splitting any country up because it will become more vulnerable to countries which remain together.
Ultimately I think the biggest issue we have is that the state is completely unaccountable to the people because they have access to the money printer. By extension the military and intelligence sector is beholden to the banks rather than the electorate. Hoppe would say this is unavoidable in a democracy.
I do see a need for governance, where as many of the privacy coin supporters seem to think there should be zero state.. I seldom hear any intelligent arguments from them.
I'm not a strong enough political thinker to come up with a solution, but that's the problem as I understand it.