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I'm interested to hear your informed thoughts on why corruption charges still exist in China if everyone there knows how corruption is happening.
by gmd63 7mo ago
I'm interested to hear your informed thoughts on why corruption charges still exist in China if everyone there knows how corruption is happening.
- sneak 7mo agoSelective enforcement of widely broken laws is one of the primary sources of control in an autocracy.
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- gmd63 7mo agoXi Jinping has disciplined millions of officials as part of his anti-corruption campaign. That cannot be some corrupt way to silence dissidents while being popular with an allegedly corruption-omniscient citizenry.
- bandrami 7mo agoI can't speak to China, but having spent most of the past decade in India and Sri Lanka I can say the problem there is that nobody is willing to unilaterally disarm. Everybody agrees that bakshish is deadweight loss and inefficient, but if Person A stops doing it and Person B doesn't, Person B gets more of whatever the finite resource in question is (slots in a school, permits, gasoline, whatever).
- tines 7mo agoOblivious comment. “If everyone knows the mob is committing crimes, why aren’t they arrested? Checkmate.”