Debate: Is a government absent of corruption possible?
Side: yes

Yes, the majority lack good future planning.Even with all our technological advancements the majority of the population cannot plan for the future but instead focus mainly on their immediate wants. If this is the case then the popular believe that the children/teenagers of today are more advance than their parents is false and ipso facto they are at best just the same as their parents. So for the last few decades there has not been progression but perhaps only decay or stagnation.Maybe, but it's a common practise.I strongly urge you to read Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, well just the first half of it because in the second half he gets biased and promotes philosophy a bit too strongly.Which still misses the important fact that there are many government seats to fill, and the best and brightest will still gravitate towards the sciences and engineering. The bottom line is that for my argument's sake, government is made up of the people that it rules over. A few IQ points here and there aren't really important.Efficiency is often misunderstood. So let me give this last part of my average, above average, and below average concept (something I was trying to avoid). In a population which exists all three types of people, the outcome will be a majority of below average people, a few average people, and even fewer above average people. Here the average will rule and the above average will disconnect themselves. The number of above average people is directly dependent on the number of average people and indirectly related to the number of below average people. If the population increases in its number of below average people the number of above average people will decrease. Why is this? Efficiency. It does not require above average people to deal with below average people.In a race of three matches, one must pitch his worst horse against the enemy's best, his average horse against the enemy's worst, and his best horse against the enemy's average; this way he is guaranteed to win.If the government is full of average people it is because the majority of the population is below average. There is no need for above average people, thus they privatize themselves.One last thing on this part, is political science not a science?I don't bid, besides this it's a matter of incompetence. Normal people cannot cope with the workload, even above-average people have difficulty, therefore we need exceptional people.I bid one cent, and since you're not bidding I make $99.99; my payoff is 99.99 and your payoff is zero. Thanks for not bidding and changing the game, this is the easiest game I've ever won; if only more people are like you, I would be rich.Okay let's use the American public education grading system to determine competence, or lack thereof. A, B, C, D, F; A's are for students who understand everything taught, pass every test, and complete every assignment; B's are given to students who do not fully understand everything taught, pass most tests and complete most assignments; C's are given to students who understand only parts of everything taught, pass some tests and complete some assignments; D's are given to students who understand bits and pieces of everything taught, pass a few tests and complete a few assignments; F's are given to students who don't understand anything taught, don't pass any test and don't complete any assignment. A stands for excellent, B for Above Average, C for Average, D for below average, F for unsatisfactory.In what sense does only understanding parts of what was instructed to the students okay to be average? So an average member of society need not understand every aspect of the concepts presented to him/her, complex or simple. Suffice to say dumb is the average American, some intelligence is their politician. Is this really what you're getting at? or does the C students wand the B students to have A student results?In my family, A is average, B is below average and anything below this means failure. Maybe it's time to raise the standards a little in the rest of the country, starting with ourselves.