Amusing. The typical businessperson anywhere complies with whatever rules an admin requires in order to do their business. The typical politician wants to creat

Amusing. The typical businessperson anywhere complies with whatever rules an admin requires in order to do their business. The typical politician wants to create a loyalty based system since that allows him to be a kingmaker. One of the defining aspects of low-corruption societies is that they don’t have the loyalty based systems and instead have rule of law. But now we see how the loyalty systems come about: it isn’t the politician who makes it; it’s the populace. Given a single deviation from the low-corruption norm, they demand loyalty test based operation and would rather move towards high-corruption. A low-corruption society is therefore an unstable equilibrium. The moment a norm deviation occurs, the people desire greater norm deviation.