> I think you can crack down on even the appearance of corruption without paying huge salaries. Sure, go ahead. Less flippantly: Of course there's no law of p

> I think you can crack down on even the appearance of corruption without paying huge salaries. Sure, go ahead. Less flippantly: Of course there's no law of physics forbidding it, but I believe the structural dynamics I described make this infeasible. I would be happy to see examples of societies that prove otherwise though. > Finally, it seems very strange to answer clear-in-aggregate corruption by paying the corrupt more money. Yes it is, which is why that's not really feasible either. Hence the catch-22.