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>"bribe" only applies when you're inducing someone to breach their responsibilities to someone else or "the system" as a whole so, what would you call a paymen
by trhway 5y ago
>"bribe" only applies when you're inducing someone to breach their responsibilities to someone else or "the system" as a whole
so, what would you call a payment for them to perform their legal duties, like issue a document for example, which they must perform by law, yet aren't going to until you pay?
- lmm 5y agoThe Foreign Corrupt Practices Act calls that a "grease payment".
- omnicognate 5y agoA.K.A. Facilitation/facilitating payment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_payment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_payment
- trhway 5y agochecked Russian law (below, in Russian) as this is where my understanding formed - it is all bribe there as i always thought, only for the "breach" (part 3.) the punishment is stronger http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_10699/6411e005f539b666d6f360f202cb7b1c23fe27c3/ http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_10699/6411e00...
- pjc50 5y agoThat is also a breach of their responsibilities, and therefore a bribe, because they should be doing it anyway. I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_rupee_note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_rupee_note (does raise the question "if you pay a bribe with something valueless is that still a bribe")