You mean minimal parasite centralized government. In a healthy decentralized government, there pretty much is never a problem with "parasites", since everyone is doing what they are meant to do, and don't have any need to react offensively.
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Which is why every healthy organism has multiple decentralized brains, and every healthy corporation has replaced its CEO with a parliament formed from all of its employees?
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From what I understand, Trump and his buddies broke quite a few laws, but no one is enforcing it against them. Your fictional ruler could easily end up in that position.
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The US is broken right now, so Trump and the institutions play a very short game against each other.
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How do you prevent the ruler from cheating, eg, using his power to increase his functional income even if his nominal income is fixed?
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Division of powers
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Do we have any estimate of how many goals can be achieved without impeding others, i.e. how loosely is the system coupled and how good are local optimizations compared to semi-global one's? Also, what stops that particular ruler from secretly killing poor people via proxy agents?
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If you care about the fate of poor people, you may have to add it to the objective function.
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What stops them from just removing CEO pay caps and exploiting averages?
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If increasing CEO pay would be going to increase the median (not average) wage, our hypothetical government should do it.
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