The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a long, evidence-backed theory for what changed in the 1970s and why Congress is broken, even when they are unsure they agree.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CRI

Topic

congressional transparency and lobbying

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• We need to destroy their logic about "collecting everything, because they might need it in 100 years" first. They do it because it's so cheap, because they can, and because nobody is really standing up to them. However, if we allowed the government to do …

• This article kinda just glosses over any causes of lobbying, and then complains about the symptoms. There is one incredibly interesting video I have seen which lays out a major root cause of corruption in the US, and the rise of lobbying and corruption since …

• This is very long but it goes into a well thought-out theory for why and how this happened. Very interesting stuff. Well worth a watch. [VIDEO]