Editing Corruption (section)

==Applications==

=== Complexity ===
Corruption and oppression in an actual system tend to be complicated. Every actual system will have both corruption and oppression to some degree, due to their abstract definition. More stridently, politics in a large, old, national government such as the United States, will necessarily have iterated on established corruption and oppression. This means there will be corruption within oppression and vice-versa, perhaps to several orders. For example, a minority will take power over the majority (e.g., the party system that was decried by the major framer of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison) which can then oppress a minority, or even corrupt an overlapping majority (manipulating voters to vote against their self-interest).

=== Corruption is inevitable ===
Exploring the abstract definition of corruption, we find that technically any representative power whatsoever, any leadership role is evidence of corruption. If any member of a group has differentiated power, that means there is an imbalance of power, which means a minority subgroup has greater power over a majority subgroup.

However, such local inefficiencies can be accepted as satisfactory tradeoffs if the (inevitably corrupt) power structure leads to greater global efficiency due to improved organization and cooperation.