Yes but the trick is, WE pay their salaries. They get rich off of the assumption that nobody in the community they are feeding off of will pay attention or take notice because they are so busy working to make it day-to-day, they have no time to be involved in community services or local government. Imagine Conscious Collective looks to make conscious use of ALL existing and emerging technologies. If the public were paying attention, they would be outraged. As of right now, from a citizen point of view being involved with local government is a waste of time. But now, with blockchain and cryptocurrency and STEEMIT we can argue against that and work to do better than existing infrastructures by incentivized participation and reporting.