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> You have a choice. Try to do business in India and pay bribes or move your business elsewhere. This post and the OP's decisions seem to me to be part of an a

• twawaaay 4y ago
  IMO it is just wasted effort. I applaud the person for trying to do right but unfortunately it will not achieve anything. For corruption to decrease you need government that is actively working to this end. Except Indian government is corrupt, too. It isn't even going to prove any point or make the problem any more public. Because Indians are extremely well aware of the problem and they all know a lot of these stories from their own life. Regular people will never get rid of corruption exactly because of the effect I mentioned -- because people self select themselves into government jobs. A government position is way more lucrative to a person that plans on being corrupt than to a person that plans to only live from the official salary. It is like trying to explain to extremists (say Republican extremists, or nazi, or communist, etc.) why what they are doing is bad. You can reach individuals and even convince them to your point but then those individuals leave their extremist circles leaving those circles exactly as extremist as they were before.
  • jefftk 4y ago
    Maybe, but many people in India's government do want it to be a place people come to do business, and publicly embarrassing them with how hard it is to make progress without bribes seems plausibly helpful.