Ask HN: Is there any proven model that eliminates corruption?
You hear about more and more corruption from people who don't lack anything. Seems that entire systems are corrupted.
The bigger the party or the corruption is, the harder it is to hold them or it accountable.
So much white collar crime, lives not mattering, and quid pro quo'ing is going on, the masses are numb to it all.
Goverment bodies would rather stack a house of untenable cards, a mile high, than admit one clear error.
In our eToys case, we have confessions by Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital (secret) lawyers, to deliberate lies under oath. Because the blue wall of silence paradigm also works for lawyers, judges and federal agents/agencies of justice - those parties also desire to be willfully blind - or circle their wagons protective of their own kind.
Keeping with such notions, as demonstrated by the recent U.S. POTUS election, the masses can be dupped into cirling the wagons, protective of clear bad faith, on the basis of inference that:
"you are not allowed to accuse 'my' desiree of bad faith".
All such us a recipe for a very sad state of affairs; which tends to encourage the venal to be more brazen & flagrant.
The bigger the party or the corruption is, the harder it is to hold them or it accountable.
So much white collar crime, lives not mattering, and quid pro quo'ing is going on, the masses are numb to it all.
Goverment bodies would rather stack a house of untenable cards, a mile high, than admit one clear error.
In our eToys case, we have confessions by Goldman Sachs & Bain Capital (secret) lawyers, to deliberate lies under oath. Because the blue wall of silence paradigm also works for lawyers, judges and federal agents/agencies of justice - those parties also desire to be willfully blind - or circle their wagons protective of their own kind.
Keeping with such notions, as demonstrated by the recent U.S. POTUS election, the masses can be dupped into cirling the wagons, protective of clear bad faith, on the basis of inference that:
"you are not allowed to accuse 'my' desiree of bad faith".
All such us a recipe for a very sad state of affairs; which tends to encourage the venal to be more brazen & flagrant.
It's got plenty of disadvantages, but it negates most of the perverse incentives of accumulating political power, and lessen the likelihood that positions of power will be held solely by ambitious people who pursue them at all costs.
For example, one idea to reduce the influence of lobbyists in the US would be to go back to secret ballots.
The lobbyist would have no way to confirm if their influence actually resulted in the vote they wanted.
Of course, that screws transparency for the people the elected official represents as well.
"Established by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in 2007, the Ibrahim Prize celebrates excellence in African leadership. It is awarded to a former Executive Head of State or Government by an independent Prize Committee composed of eminent figures, including two Nobel Laureates."