Why Don't We Make It Harder for Politicians to Benefit From Their Posts?

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I'm shocked that we don't make it harder for politicians to benefit off of their post you know, i would love to see if you had to give up some of your wealth. I think that people should worry that they're going to get caught. The police are in a unique position where their abusive behaviour, when it happens, is so destructive that they should be put in these positions. And very often te the ones that are least surveiled. That debate now is existing in the usa bit. But it's absurd. If you just look at how people get much richer in their time in congress, that shouldn't exist. We have to think outside the box a little bit on

All societies grant more power to some citizens, and there is always a temptation to use that power for the benefit of themselves rather than for the greater good. Power corrupts, we are told — but to what extent is that true? Would any of us, upon receiving great power, be tempted by corruption? Or are corruptible people drawn to accrue power? Brian Klaas has investigated these questions by looking at historical examples and by interviewing hundreds of people who have been in this position. He concludes that power can corrupt, but it doesn’t necessarily do so — we can construct safeguards to keep corruption to a minimum.

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Brian Klaas received his D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford. He is currently Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a columnist for The Washington Post. His new book is Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us. He is host of the Power Corrupts podcast.