Yes, but another problem is that when you are too deeply involved with the minutiae of the system you lose track of the big picture - it&#x27;s not corruption or trade agreements that&#x27;s going to doom us, the real issue is with feedback loops embedded in the basic idea of profit maximization and growth economy. You may have zero corruption and perfectly honest people and market economy will <i>still</i> screw you over.<p>Our system was pretty good for bootstrapping humanity into a technological era, and was pretty well aligned with our shared values for a time, but now it&#x27;s becoming less and less well-aligned, in dangerous ways. In the end, with robots capable of doing anything, trying to keep people working for a living is prima facie ridiculous <i>and</i> evil. We need a way to avoid this future, and focusing just on new ways to solve government corruption isn&#x27;t, I think, going to help us with this much. We need to stop riding the feedback loop.<p>C.f. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;meditations-on-moloch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;meditations-on-moloch&#x2F;</a> for some pretty good analysis of the problem