Philanthropy has always been a way for the wealthy to whitewash themselves of the evil that made them wealthy. It's never designed to actually fix the things they broke and the lives they ruined. Look into it's history from its start with the robber barons. Look how bill gates is giving millions in philanthropy and yet "somehow" grows still more wealthy and controls immense amounts of agricultural land. It's another capitalist ploy.

Political salaries are more or less caped. It is campain financing that is the issue and lack of IRV. It is also the lack of some term limits or maybe age limits. We have too many fossils in congress that have not brought younger people along, Also too many old presidents, In my lifetime Reagon, Biden. and Trump were too old.

We also do not choose the best leaders Nixon was not capable at the end and Clinton was just inappropriate in the workplace those these were personnal issues. Then there is the question of which ones were even up to the job.

Maybe people can be corrupted. But I think it’s selection biases. If you’re the type of person to fuck people over to earn money (big buisness) or to seek power above others (politics), maybe you were corrupted in the first place? I mean it’s hard to make it in either of those without doing a lot of morally questionable stuff.