> That kind of corruption (paying off cops) is absolutely toxic to economic development You do realize that in order to get a cop job in Vietnam, you literally

> That kind of corruption (paying off cops) is absolutely toxic to economic development You do realize that in order to get a cop job in Vietnam, you literally have to buy it? The corruption of 'paying cops off' actually happens much higher up. Singapore went to the opposite extreme and not entirely in the right way. When I worked for Grab, it was run by a religious nutter who made really awful decisions and the company was full of nepotism. There are still plenty of ways to lose money there, it just happens in different ways.