What if they know exactly what they're doing. But politicians don't really represent you. Republican democracy is the most easily corruptable system. It literally creates a caste of people at the contol levers who have to maximally sell off what they have control over to give enough favors to get re-elected. It sets up a game that guarentees corruption.
What we need is a king with absolute security. As Machievelli pointed out, if their status is threatened, they will maximally redirect the resource they have control over to protect themselves. So to have an apolitical system instead you put someone in power who can't be removed, is given an amount of wealth exceeding their desire for wealth, and who wants to leave you alone.
With a population of 350 million people, you can't tell me we can't psych profile someone who fits that bill? There are actually a few people who are relatively disinterested in wealth, and most people who aren't politicians naturally do want to leave you alone. If we found someone like that and told them you'll have some reasonable amount of wealth even though you don't want it, and you don't have to do anything, I'm sure we could find someone who would take it. The key is to find someone who wasn't asking to.
Then society's one rule is you can't exceed his power. Because that would break the goal of having the most powerful person be someone who is leaving us alone. His only job is to displace people who think they can take the title of supreme authority. Nope, it's that guy whose on his third week of only playing runescape. He's the supreme authority. Then all of society just has to fully get behind keeping him in power no matter what.
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What if they know exactly what they're doing. But politicians don't really represent you. Republican democracy is the most easily corruptable system. It literally creates a caste of people at the contol levers who have to maximally sell off what they have control over to give enough favors to get re-elected. It sets up a game that guarentees corruption.
What we need is a king with absolute security. As Machievelli pointed out, if their status is threatened, they will maximally redirect the resource they have control over to protect themselves. So to have an apolitical system instead you put someone in power who can't be removed, is given an amount of wealth exceeding their desire for wealth, and who wants to leave you alone.
With a population of 350 million people, you can't tell me we can't psych profile someone who fits that bill? There are actually a few people who are relatively disinterested in wealth, and most people who aren't politicians naturally do want to leave you alone. If we found someone like that and told them you'll have some reasonable amount of wealth even though you don't want it, and you don't have to do anything, I'm sure we could find someone who would take it. The key is to find someone who wasn't asking to.
Then society's one rule is you can't exceed his power. Because that would break the goal of having the most powerful person be someone who is leaving us alone. His only job is to displace people who think they can take the title of supreme authority. Nope, it's that guy whose on his third week of only playing runescape. He's the supreme authority. Then all of society just has to fully get behind keeping him in power no matter what.