depsidase:

So how do we get this kind of thing to happen, instead of what happens in the US?

which is “rich people invest in the government itself instead of schools and other public goods, because when they buy politicians they can make sure the laws won’t make them do anything they don’t already wanna do”

(i know “dont allow the rich to buy the government” is an option in some countries. But we used to have a legal limit on how much they could give to politicians, and then they still managed to buy enough of the legal system to get rid of that)