IDK, I can see the value in seizing the means of production and creating a anarcho-syndicalist commune, in which the economic system based on the exchange of commodities, such as money or goods, is abolished in favor of a fair and universal welfare through equal division of labor and thus the resulting production.
So TLDR: You want to pay the judges even more, creating an even greater divide between the judges and the people which lives their rulings affect, I want torches, pitchforks and guillotines.
By now I realize that I will never be able to travel to the US anyway, so I might as well just go all in…
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
It’s not that simple. Better people can just know that they’re more valuable elsewhere and leave. Then the only people you have left are the dirt at the bottom of the bag that are willing to sell out.
And that’s a competitive salary in that field. And I find that reasoning is a right way to define their and many other public servants’ wage. My comment was against the idea of ‘we pay extra to ensure they won’t fall for bribes’.
Just out of curiosity, because your mention of the concept is not the first I’ve read in this thread: what is the industry average for a private sector supreme court justice?
I don’t know, I can see the value in paying them more, give the gravity of what they deal with….
Otherwise they might be open to bribery 😝
IDK, I can see the value in seizing the means of production and creating a anarcho-syndicalist commune, in which the economic system based on the exchange of commodities, such as money or goods, is abolished in favor of a fair and universal welfare through equal division of labor and thus the resulting production.
So TLDR: You want to pay the judges even more, creating an even greater divide between the judges and the people which lives their rulings affect, I want torches, pitchforks and guillotines.
By now I realize that I will never be able to travel to the US anyway, so I might as well just go all in…
Or we could legislate checks and balances, so that we can hold powerful people accountable for corruption.
and who exactly would pass legislation holding themselves to account for crimes they have definitely committed?
Congress could pass the legislation, but they’re just as corrupt
Like they say about religions: If higher wages is the only thing that keeps you from being bribed, you aren’t a good judge to begin with.
There should be one of IRS’s ninja vampire breathing in their back at all times.
It’s not that simple. Better people can just know that they’re more valuable elsewhere and leave. Then the only people you have left are the dirt at the bottom of the bag that are willing to sell out.
And that’s a competitive salary in that field. And I find that reasoning is a right way to define their and many other public servants’ wage. My comment was against the idea of ‘we pay extra to ensure they won’t fall for bribes’.
It should be better than the industry average by a fair margin due to the gravity, personal risk and other such things that come with the job.
Just out of curiosity, because your mention of the concept is not the first I’ve read in this thread: what is the industry average for a private sector supreme court justice?
As we have recently discovered with Donald Trump, the checks and balances are only as good as the people willing to enforce them.
A government is made of regular people, though notably ungoverned
I mean, why not both?