corruption is best understood as the hidden mechanism that gives status value e.g. a society can value social service w a low salary very highly but often there’s also a mutual understanding of bribery/lobbying influence
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a simple example are loan clubs specific to an ethnic group. these are technically black market banking services but they often provide huge advantage to the ingroup. many koreans in LA for e.g. had access to capital while groups w/o this coordination like blacks gang warred
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this correlates class and race and some end up feeling very angry that the koreans own all the good restaurants and dry cleaning services similarly, jews with their evil usury ended up in positions of economic influence and mounting resentment across europe
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the word “corruption” then must always be taken with a grain of salt since it implies the presence of illegible processes that may be critical even if they are absent from the externalized acceptable narrative
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