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re corruption: I was flying from Kathmandu to Bangkok in 2000 and I couldn't book a ticket on the plane until the day it flew as 'half the plane' was reserved
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 1y ago
re corruption:
I was flying from Kathmandu to Bangkok in 2000 and I couldn't book a ticket on the plane until the day it flew as 'half the plane' was reserved for 'Government Officials' 'just in case'. Amusingly they were all on one side of the plane too, the side that can see Mount Everest during the flight.
- barbazoo 1y agoI don’t quite see how this is indicative of corruption
- brendoelfrendo 1y agoI believe the implication is that those seats would in fact be available to you if you knew who to bribe. And the fact that they were all on the Everest-facing side of the plane suggests that whoever controlled those seats realized that they could get a premium for them.
- tocs3 1y agoAlso, (speculation warning) it could be the government paying for airline seats to "keep them available" is a kickback. That is, lobbyist paying government officials for a contract that is not needed.
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoIt’s a shadow tax on non-government consumers. Imagine if you ran a restaurant and had to always keep a table free for the mayor’s family.
- barbazoo 1y agoYou used the word "always", the person I responded to didn't. > I was flying from Kathmandu to Bangkok in 2000 and I couldn't book a ticket on the plane until the day it flew as 'half the plane' was reserved for 'Government Officials' 'just in case'. The "just in case" sounds like speculation to me so all it sounds like is the flight they were on was reserved.
- daveguy 1y agoBut just the side of the plane that has the best view. If you don't recognize that as corruption...
- citizenpaul 1y agoPeople really don't have an understanding of just how destructive this kind of corruption is. Extorting the current businesses is only the direct effect. The longer term is literal desolation. People simply do not start business as time goes on so there is nothing to exploit as time passes. Business that exist simply don't operate in that country anymore so there is not even anything to buy if you have money. Then the violence and enslavement starts.
- Yeul 1y agoPeople do which is why when a police officer that asks for money during a traffic stop is told to fuck off in a Western country. Smart people did this math as far back as the 19th century.
- bombcar 1y agoHonestly that’s kind of polite in a strange way. They could have just bumped anyone when they needed a ticket.
- alchemical_piss 1y agoYeah, just like it’s polite to maim someone when you could have killed them.
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