DonFerrari said:
No one in a powerful position should be trusted, simple as that. You may accept it, but you also need to keep vigilant and not trust of their motives. "if working well" a company would be more profitable without supervisors, managers, CEO, etc because it would save on wages, but it don't work like that. Similar to X+Y with two positive numbers won't ever be lower than X. |
I believe that excessive mistrust kills collective progress and leads to a generally miserable society.
It would be foolish to trust everyone in government blindly - however, that is simply not required, in a correctly structured institution. There are a *lot* of people that would be aware of any corruption that could occur, and *any* of them could, and I believe for some, would, be able to create a lawsuit for any such.
What concerns actual expenditure on political salaries, that's fairly insignificant on the scale of a country.
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