Anti-corruption yellow vest protesters in Dublin's streets, protesting the 2008 bailout, Catholic church scandals, spiraling housing costs and no legal weed

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@themadpoet

Meanwhile the rich are all bitching because they only get to keep 7 million out of the last 8 they made.

While they hide the other 100 million they made overseas, paying no taxes at all?

@zikzak

Corruption implies officials taking bribes, stealing, and otherwise violating the laws which dictate how they do their job. Most of what’s ruining our lives isn’t individual officials breaking the law, though, it’s the system working exactly as it’s supposed to - perfectly legal and aboveboard.

I take your point, but I also think that calling this anti-corruption is more pushback than it is getting the word wrong. I think part of what’s happened over the last few decades is defining corruption down so that if there is no burlap sack with a dollar sign printed on the side, there’s no corruption.

We can’t really define corruption as being only illegal things, because the people who write the laws are the ones who are corrupt. Making legislative decisions to curry favour with a company so they will hire you to their board when your term is up is, to me, completely corrupt. The corrupt people who do it aren’t going to pass a law against it, though.