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Someone with bad grades who gets into a school which requires good grades
A bench in a park that costs the taxpayers ~$6k
“The new” electric busses which are not second hand but third hand
All the pollitical bs that happens in Bulgaria on a daily basses
Lol yeah the nepotism and over-inflating everything the government pays for are absolute classics.
I think politicians are the main reason any given country is poor, they are meant to be leaders but turn into parasites pretty easily.
Im from Hong Kong, politics. When it was handed over to the CCP from British England, everything went down so quick, no free speech, no democracy, no economy.
That’s rough, I really feel for you there. It’s crazy how the CCP dystopian nightmare can ruin something so quickly.
One of my less fortunate acquaintances asked my wife to falsify a receipt for him so he could claim he purchased something from us when in fact we gave it to him out of pity. We turned him down.
I hired a migrant certified tradesman to do some work for me who ended up being totally incompetent and far from pushing to get better at his basic trade he was working towards his professional engineers license despite being even more incompetent at engineering – The machinery in place that let an incompetent liar achieve those qualifications is definitely corruption.
My mom was going to work on one of the great civil projects of her age but the project ended up getting moved to Quebec because they’re a bunch of whiny bitches who get all the government money so they won’t separate.
Oh, our prime minister threatened to shut down my ability to use money for supporting a peaceful protest.
Aw man these are all shitty, I think these are good examples of Western corruption in countries where typical petty corruption isn’t that common (see @Owner_of_donky’s reply for petty corruption in Eastern Europe for example). It’s interesting to see the various forms corruption takes.
Interesting point, the fact that the basic machinery works is why it’s the advanced machinery can be corrupt.
China is corrupt at the local level but it’s still early in its lifecycle, but presumably it’s future looks more like Bulgaria than Canada.
In daily life I have no doubt that China is ravaged by corruption, that kind of system can’t function without it.
State bureaucrats have the power for every little aspect of life, they will all find ways to make that power more lucrative and people will always try to grease their way through. Xi getting a bit too serious about his anti-corruption push may be what finally deposes him, it would become life or death for very many powerful people. His anti-corruption antics are usually for show/finding scapegoats/getting rid of inconvenient people, the whole system is corrupt to the core.
I guess, totalitarian regimes must be corrupt or incompetent to survive because otherwise the totalitarian must be perfect and omniscient.
