RE: Is corruption mostly a good thing?
December 12, 2019 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2019 at 1:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm guessing that it's an issue of construction standards in housing. We have laws like that here, too. If the building isn't up to code, you can't electrify it.
Paying a bribe doesn't bring the building up to code..it doesn't make anything "better" - it just lets you sell a firetrap to some unwitting rube who expects an electrified house not to turn into a bonfire while they sleep. That also happens here.
So..yeah, getting rid of that particular bit of corruption would make things demonstrably better - to the tune of that many fewer houses burning down with the occupants inside. Every nitwit and their brother complains about codes when they want to sell a house, but ofc the tune is different when they're buying.
Paying a bribe doesn't bring the building up to code..it doesn't make anything "better" - it just lets you sell a firetrap to some unwitting rube who expects an electrified house not to turn into a bonfire while they sleep. That also happens here.
So..yeah, getting rid of that particular bit of corruption would make things demonstrably better - to the tune of that many fewer houses burning down with the occupants inside. Every nitwit and their brother complains about codes when they want to sell a house, but ofc the tune is different when they're buying.
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