The problem is that in the countries with democratic systems, these can be easily exploited if you find a % of demographic that would accept handouts in exchange for votes and target them using Facebook etc. they'll happily vote to get free money.

Collective action is basically the only way Americans can force the three branches of government to do something they don't want to do. A lone actor is screwed; Billionaires excluded.

That is exactly the mentality that got us into this mess.

What's your solution then?

1. Go about your life and don't worry about the nonsense of the government.

or

2. Dont participate or contribute to the system as much as possible. ie Working at big unethical corp for a fat paycheck is not helping things.

There are other ways as well. but those came to mind