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While corruption is rampant in China, a low level clerk at a local tax office can't really leverage his position to do much. Also, getting into business in Chi

• rdtsc 11y ago
  > While corruption is rampant in China, a low level clerk at a local tax office can't really leverage his position to do much. It depends, sometimes a low level clerk is a gatekeeper to higher level corruption, like a doorman if you wish. If there is not pre-existent relationship you need someone like that to make the initial contact. There is also nepotism, he could be low level, but because his uncle is high up the chain, he is a good conduit for those wanting to pay a bribe to contact, etc, etc. More examples from a corrupt country. Long time ago, neighbor had a friend at a forensics and paternity testing clinic. He was a low level grunt but was corrupt as heck and was raking in tens of thousands per year both from criminal paying him to "not find evidence" and deadbeat dads and rapists for not finding "paternity" evidence. Talk about scum of the earth... So sometimes rank is not proportional to profit from corruption.