Chinese corruption
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This is pretty much what I meant by my initial post here, that inexplicably some people didn't quite grasp immediately.jacobhinds said:
Different culture? More like different species!jacobhinds said:
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Bromden said:
It's very much a product of Chinese culture: trying to apply that to Western culture and sensibilities is really just not going to work. Every culture, every government system and style has its benefits and its drawbacks, and sometimes its benefits are drawbacks and its drawbacks benefits.
The current style of politicians getting rich by selling off the country piece by piece is not so beneficial, and I know that a lot of people here would settle with the drawback of cleaning splattered politician brain. Although I'd prefer hanging, it's more traditional.
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It sounds a whole lot less edgy when you're personally effected by corruption. Which I can imagine is the case for Bromden, being from Hungary.Dodes said:
Also there's the fact that the extreme ends of corruption result in a society where paying bribes (upwards or downwards) is the only way to get anything done, which is basically a Chinese nightmare. That still doesn't mean it'd work elsewhere.
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It's mostly cultural. In Asia, high level corruption's considered to be worse than outright murdering a state of people altogether. It's mostly sourced from ancient history, where flourishing city states die off to invaders or aspiring emperors due to some level of corruption in the country's ranks leading to a strategic failure in their defenses, and in those days when you lose a battle for the city, the population typically gets displaced (unless said city is in the borderlands, where people are used to switching allegiances at a drop of a hat/helmet/beheaded general) or outright mass executed. Therefore there is a very 40k esque grimdark view of corruption, where having corruption will lead to traitors and whatnot, making corruption literally worse than margarine, and people who remain corrupt at the price of the people's well being should be purged when possible, with preference to purging their entire family line and extended families to go with it.
That would explain the filthy looks one guy gave to another the one time i saw corruption go down in China. And this was incredibly mild, the sort of stuff that most people would freely admit to a police officer in America or the UK. Although i shouldn't say too much because i logged into taleworlds while i was over there (cases of people's accounts being surveyed). For all i know they've been posting behind my back
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-bosses-of-chinas-state-owned-firms-face-hefty-pay-cuts-paper-2014-8
Sometimes it is remarkable how different two societies can be. (And how similar, but I was struck by this article given how often we complain of how CEOs and executives in our country are paid and the like)
Sometimes it is remarkable how different two societies can be. (And how similar, but I was struck by this article given how often we complain of how CEOs and executives in our country are paid and the like)
