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Lee Kuan Yew has a line about how if you allow two generations of corruption you permanently lose an institution - Good people leave - Others normalize new incentives and become bad - Entire system reshapes I think this is true of all groups. And means we underweight its damage
Wow, more interest in this than I expected. If you are interested Lee Kuan Yew's book "From Third World to First" has a chapter on "Keeping the Government Clean". Excerpt below, but chapter has much more Also highly recommend his other auto-biography "The Singapore Story".pic.twitter.com/uI0f9nnypb
Yet if people raise questions about his son and his wife running the country, they get silenced or sued?https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/28/singapore-can-have-meritocracy-or-nepotism-but-not-both/ …
I’m not a huge fan of this system, but it seems to work better for us than a lot of the alternatives work for other people elsewhere. There are many of us who want things to be better; I don’t think we make any pretense at any sort of moral leadership
I wish Twitter had a better way to show followers the quote tweets on a tweet. Surprised at how much that's shown only to original poster. What I'll say is wow, this tweet is primarily taking off in Africa.
I’m not surprised; didn’t I tell ya that Africans read LKY more than Singaporeans do? 
they have a lot more incentive to signal the anti-corruption statement amongst their peers. In SG it’s received wisdom we take for granted
You did haha, I was just thinking about that earlier as I started seeing all the responses. Nigeria (by a large margin) and Kenya are the two countries most being discussed
Yes it will be used as a sounding board in my country Nigeria because good institutions have been eroded badly Honestly reading LKY's book this year has been one of the best things that ever happened to me. The wisdom in there is not just for politics or corruption but business
Finance to an extent (the distribution of wealth of Singaporeans), culture and so much more! Y'all may not agree with his system but it has set SG on a pedestal of sorts.
So what do you do if that's already happened? Do you just have to replace the institution? Is there a rehab program?
Yeah this is the question. Lots of views here - exit - external purge and refactor - etc From LKY side this is what he did to PAP. So readings there too
It's harder to influence from the outside. Especially when the victims have totally normalised everything, they'd be easy for those maintaining the status quo to control them, making it hard for change. I think it has to be done from within. Takes much more effort though.
I don't know if you'll be able to relate, but read this. The masses are in love with the 'bad' leaders.https://twitter.com/Biyatife/status/1070666288689762304?s=19 …
Thanks for sharing. Is this from a book or a speech and can you please share the title?
Yes--From Third World to First chapter 12. Also highly recommend The Singapore Storyhttps://twitter.com/kevinakwok/status/1070620768164184065 …
Thank you!
Gresham's Law - counterfeit money drives out good - generalizes. Bad management drives out good; bad scholarship drives out good. The solution lies in leadership, I think.
This is why I believe police work should be like the army: take idealistic young people for a few years, keep a few leaders, but transition the rest back into society. I don't think humans were meant to see people at their worst for decades.
Assuming that's true, I wonder to where the line is drawn on corruption. Is it just 'taking massive bribes' or does it also include things such as a culture laziness and trying to appear busy. My bet is the latter
I wonder to what extent the difference between corruption and other taxes is just formalization of accepted norms. (There is probably a literature about this) To me, cultural corruption matters exponentially more than financial corruption/ bribery norms
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