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Keyword being uncorrupt.
Governments are run by people, at the end of the day
Humans will be humans. You can't eliminate corruption, but you can work to fight it. Every day. Forever...
Sounds like a job for Super-Sisyphus
You can't have uncorrupt and a middle class. This means there is a lower class and an upper class that is determined by what exactly? Birth? That's just saying "I'm fine with people suffering do to no fault of their own as long as the wealthy get to have more than they need"
Private companies are also run by people. "The market" is also affected by people making imperfect decisions all the time, waiting for it to self regulate is...well, I mean, aren't we still waiting?
The problem is politics and government becoming part of the market where laws, regulations and power can be sold and bought, if not for money then for influence.
Markets don't self-regulate, though
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