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If Ikea did not bribe and failed to get approval perhaps it is part of the local culture of getting anything approved
by ipaddr 5y ago
If Ikea did not bribe and failed to get approval perhaps it is part of the local culture of getting anything approved
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoNow if only people in the west would apply this same logic to their own communities. Whole Foods isn't donating money to the private school that the children of some local politician to attend because of their belief in the school's mission. They're doing it because they want to redevelop a strip mall and a new soccer field costs less than anything that involves a courtroom.
- ethagknight 5y agoI know you are trying to make an example of bribes, politicians, and private schooling, but honestly Whole Foods donating funds for a new playing field for a school and also redeveloping a strip mall instead of paying a bunch of attorneys to occupy space in a public courtroom sounds like... a win win win?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI don't necessarily disagree but I'm not 100% sold on the high wealth floor that's required to access western corruption being a good thing.
- stefan_ 5y agoThere is an important distinction in this law. Paying an official to do something he would have done anyway is not a bribe, even if in the absence of it they might have never "gotten around to it". It's specifically things like this article alleges, kickbacks to officials involved in procurement decisions. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act#Exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act#...