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It's a fallacy, but one that many people perceive as true in a steady state economy. Or rather there's enough greedy people that tend to work their way into pos
by elcritch 5y ago
It's a fallacy, but one that many people perceive as true in a steady state economy. Or rather there's enough greedy people that tend to work their way into positions of power in order to extract for themselves. Bribery at every bureaucratic level is the norm in most third world countries.
- zozbot234 5y agoMost third world countries are poor because of their low-quality institutions. To be sure, bribery used to be just as common in the pre-modern West; norms against bribery are a key part of what we think of as "modernity", "the Enlightenment" etc.