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Being filthy rich in a rich country, perhaps? :)
by generic92034 2y ago
Being filthy rich in a rich country, perhaps? :)
- anal_reactor 2y agoNo because in a rich country you need to adhere to laws and regulations while in a poor country you can just pay bribes and do what you want
- sunaookami 2y agoThat still holds true in rich countries...
- red-iron-pine 2y agoreally just a function of how much money, and how you define "rich". poor countries just shift that number lower. but if I had $100MM I'd rather be sorta-rich in Los Angeles than mega-rich in Bolivia
- sandworm101 2y agoIt really doesn't. Rich countries have base rules that all must follow. Justin Timberlake was just arrested for drunk driving. He might get off because he can afford the best lawyers, but he was arrested. That is a thing that happened. It would not have happened in somewhere like Tajikistan where a roadside bribe would nullify the entire situation. For the equivalent of a few hundred bucks they would have given him a ride home and nobody would be the wiser.
- hobs 2y agoJust make sure to be a cop and then you'll be fine.
- qingcharles 2y agoI had a sheriff's officer I knew tell me he'd been stopped five times for drunk driving and each time he'd just pulled out his badge and they'd waved him along.
- runamuck 2y agoI have a friend from Nigeria and he said you can avoid arrest with a $2 bribe. That shocked me.
- yieldcrv 2y agoIn rich countries the things you want to do are already legal, or are in the rich country next door but worse case for violent criminal things, there isn't a functional difference between a campaign donation to the district attorney in a wealthy nation or a couple bucks to a police officer in your face in a poor country
- baybal2 2y ago[dead]
- wruza 2y agoThat really depends on what you want. A poor place may simply not have a “utility” that you might want to fully entertain due to inherently low standards. They may literally not know any better and nobody went there to fix that.