I think we pay politicians nothing, disallow any power or ability to distribute funds in any way, and make it an exclusively volunteer system where people who actually care are the only ones who show up.

Govt shouldn’t be run like a business, it isn’t about “investment” or “enterprise.” Thats our problem, imo. The govt is literally just a huge, corrupt, horrifically incompetent corporation. It shouldn’t and never was supposed to be any such thing