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> Devil's advocate, but they can rationalize it because the education and public health budget is anyhow going to be embezzled by some Minister (eg. the current

• alephnerd 3y ago
  > is definitely what any functioning society is ostensibly designed to handle That's how I know you grew up in an Upper Middle Class American household. Newsflash - humans suck. America used to be this corrupt 50-60 years ago as well, but it required generational bipartisan reforms to change. You can't expect a county that's still in the economic equivalent of the 1910s-20s to speedrun generational legislative changes. Take a look at European countries like Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Greece, etc. They might be "developed" in the sense that there are shiny buildings and people aren't starving to death anymore, but wheeling and dealing, cronyism, and judicial+legislative tampering still occur. ----------- Also, view corruption as a feature, not a bug. In developing countries, you don't rule by ideology, you rule by pure unadulterated power. Before the internet, you could shoot someone in a ditch and it won't trend on Twitter or IG. Now it will, so the best solution to maintain compliance is to use corruption as a way to keep everyone in line - all politicians in these countries partake in it, but if they don't listen to leadership, they will be prosecuted for it.