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It’s money. The answer is money. Somebody makes money by producing lead-infused products, so they pay off lawmakers to add a loophole that allows them to contin
by gmkabro 3y ago
It’s money. The answer is money. Somebody makes money by producing lead-infused products, so they pay off lawmakers to add a loophole that allows them to continue making money.
- tlrobinson 3y agoBill Gurley’s recent talk is worth a watch https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM
- hodgesrm 3y agoThat's an excellent talk. Thanks for posting.
- sneak 3y agoYet people still maintain the popular fiction that corruption isn't that common in the large western countries, and that it's somehow more prevalent in the east. It's nonsense. Everywhere there are large governments, there is huge corruption that is literally killing people so that others may be enriched without working as much.
- forgetm3 3y agoCorruption exists everywhere, but in western countries is a lot less likely that you'll be bribing police, school teachers, medical services, banks etc as an 'individual' to get the services you expect from them. Can you find examples of people bribing those in those positions? Sure, it can and does happen. And on the whole, it's the exception rather than the rule. And definitely not at the scale of other countries. Big business interests affecting policy for the point of profit is a universal issue though.
- lacrimacida 3y agoA small government wouldn’t magically solve this problem though
- Clubber 3y ago>A small government wouldn’t magically solve this problem though You'd have a lot fewer corrupt officials though.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoWell there are so many social issues that suck the oxygen out