I think his point that you don't actually get fairness in practice answers to your point about the trade-off between efficiency and corruption. I think the poi

I think his point that you don't actually get fairness in practice answers to your point about the trade-off between efficiency and corruption. I think the point was that adding rules and diffusing responsibility appear to be a way to reduce corruption and making things fair for everyone, but that in practice that relationship may not be so simple.