I've lived in both US and Brazil and I would say that the level of corruption is more or less the same no matter where one lives in the world, but in Brazil eve

I've lived in both US and Brazil and I would say that the level of corruption is more or less the same no matter where one lives in the world, but in Brazil even the street cleaner knows about the political scandals while in the US it's all smoke & mirrors, to the point that only the higher-ups are in on it. Brazil: "I know about it but what can I do to change it? Let's focus on some talking point instead." US: "I don't really know about any scandals so let's focus on some talking point." The problem also isn't exactly political but social, as in what might be called "small/everyday corruption" (running a red light, cutting in line, not mentioning the cashier just gave you more change than you deserved, and a million other things). There's no ML for that, only education [1]. As an aside: when one lives in Brazil (or any country, really), "when in Rome..." seems to apply, at least in some cases. At one point, I lived in the slums and was using internet that was very likely from a stolen connection (known as a "gato", or in this case, "gatonet"), but this was what everyone had and there was nothing else on offer. I also used types of public transportation that were very efficient for me but, afaik, technically illegal yet no one was really policing it. To give one more Brazil example, at a movie theater, I once used a recently expired student card of mine to get half-price. With these types of things taken into consideration, I'd say that the US (my country) is like concrete while Brazil is like water. To each, their own. There's good and bad aspects about both. 1 - In Brazil, there's sometimes a mix-up in the usage of the terms education (educação), which includes concepts of right vs wrong and manners, and schooling (escolaridade), thus in my mention of education I mean to include both senses.