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If you'll be given the chance to test your country's next Presidential candidates, what would it be and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by 65gmexl3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Straight up, all state and federal politicians should be paid minimum wage by hour. The only way they get a raise is if everyone gets a raise.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is how you get intense corruption

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As opposed to the honest and pure politicians we have today...

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know you mean this well, but the solution for "bad" is not usually "worse"

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In the same vein, better is not perfect. There are hundreds of things wrong with our political systems and no single thing will fix all of it. Getting paid more than could ever be reasonable does not stop these people from doing everything they can to get more so whether they get more money or less won't change the corruption you're taking about. That's a separate problem with separate answers.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago

We might have to agree to disagree here. I'm not even sure politicians are paid unreasonably well imo.

But I guess my main thing is that I don't believe perfection is attainable. All we can do is get close enough. We're definitely not there yet, but I think we gotta keep taking steps in the right direction