Sometimes Americans have a hard time understanding more dysfunctional parts of the world because they want the story to be about good guys and bad guys.
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The reality is that all societies and systems are complex interactions between multiple self-interested parties who are continuously forming, deforming, and reforming into larger scale organisms too with their own agendas and incentives.
Corruption isn’t evil. It’s the way things get done in most of the rest of the world. Love it, hate it, or confused by it, ambitious young Chinese today join the communist party, which within itself has numerous factions determined by the goals of their members...
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Not all corruption is equivalent. The type that lets a person do business is different from the type that keeps others from competing. I had some thoughts on it here:https://unpleasantfacts.com/positive-rights-negative-rights-and-corruptio …
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Nice article. Agree totally.
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