askchapo

the third world corruption comes from fear of instability, and the lack of will and the lack of people who can replace the role, like if a guy who has witnessed more than 0 civil wars in his life has a job where he can't be kicked out instantly and replaced, he will not believe that there is a future where he'll get to retire, or whatever he's doing means anything at all, it's just money and power that he sees flowing that he can hold out his hand take what he can and be more important for anyone to care. Like personally I know a [Engineer] who had a corruption scandal a few years ago, his logic came from him witnessing first hand other Engineers being killed during a civil war and of their projects being abandoned and left, even after he was arrested he's still allowed to roam free because the place doesn't have many engineers as competent as him. He's a guy afraid of losing everything, believes anything he'll do is meaningless, has money go right past him, and he can't be replaced.

It takes a lot of time to actually remove corruption you need multiple generations of economic growth and stability. Authority and surveillance are nigh useless, since you'll just have corrupt anti-corruption officers.

But, I think corruption is way too overstated in the third world as an issue, all western governments are corrupt we already know that, but the thing worse than corruption is the legal privatization and selling of the country's resources to the lowest bidder yk? like have a corrupt minister buy a few Ferraris and build a mansion and the most you'll lose is a few million dollars, give away your oil to Shell and not only do you lose the money, but you lose sovernity and control over that oil well.