>>Donating a building is a payment to the university. >>It may not be meritocratic, but it's not corrupt Its just dampening the effects a little, but its the

>>Donating a building is a payment to the university. >>It may not be meritocratic, but it's not corrupt Its just dampening the effects a little, but its the same though. Donating X, just means the person who bought in the donation gets promoted or gets awarded some bonus or gets rewards by their employer(university). Instead of receiving the bribe directly. This is a classic trick from corruption handbooks used by ace corrupt people. When you trade something for something which could be wrong, only stupid people directly do it through exchange of money. Clever people trade through favors and indirect profit/help. They also call this lobbying in places like politics. In many other places they call these things incentives, commissions, brokerage or whatever. This is really one of those classic problems with defining corruption. Books and stories can always be cooked in a way to make anything look good.