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I see the key as being benefit of all students (university has more money) vs benefit of one (bribe).

• vkou 7y ago
  That doesn't matter. When a store's employees steal merchandise from a store, and sell it out of the back door, they aren't guilty of raising prices for the store's customers. They are guilty of theft... From their employer. Nobody wastes time moralizing about what impact their actions have on shoppers, because it's a second-order effect. Selling the illusion of a university being a meritocracy is the same thing. Employees doing it for personal gain are stealing from the university, not the students.