More pervasive than simply setting up and running a business. Can you get a license to drive a car? Can you get your children into school? Can you rent that pro

More pervasive than simply setting up and running a business. Can you get a license to drive a car? Can you get your children into school? Can you rent that property to live in? All these things tend to become insider-outsider models bound up in failed socialism where status and access to power get more important rather than less. Orwell's the Pigs running the farm kind of thing. crony socialism, crony capitalism. These are just not really so meaningful. Just call it corruption because that is what it is. Whether or not laws have been broken it is still corrupt. Whether the ideology of the government is socialist, capitalist or otherwise it is corrupt. I'm not sure the most corrupt capitalist states can match the soviet union for the sheer scale and pervasiveness of corruption, for example. The worst corrupt capitalist reigimes don't seem to be able to match the scale and pervasiveness of environmental degradation seen behind the iron curtain when that came down. I think there's something in that.