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In which country was corruption or alike "accepted behavior" by law?

• OfSanguineFire 3y ago
  For centuries, Russian bureaucrats were expected – completely officially and under the law – to earn their living by extracting money from members of the local population directly, instead of through taxation going into a state budget. This was known as kormlenie. To populations elsewhere, such a system might meet their local definition of corruption.
  • hutzlibu 3y ago
    But then you can argue, that it is not corruption, but right of (primitive) taxation.