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Institutions are not corrupt, people are. Corrupt people like to blame the problems onto institutions, that serves them well.
by maigret 1y ago
Institutions are not corrupt, people are. Corrupt people like to blame the problems onto institutions, that serves them well.
- TimTheTinker 1y agoYes and no. Corrupt leaders corrupt institutions. But for large enough institutions, institutionalized corruption tends to transcend the corruption (or lack thereof) of its current leaders. At that scale, it takes a lot of power, courage, and integrity for a leader to reform the institution. Power itself can be a corrupting influence when too much is vested onto a single person -- hence the necessity of integrity.