Hacker News Reader

Tech can’t fix everything. It can’t fix graft and corruption. You need people like Morgenthau and Giuliani but even more fearless and aggressive to rip out corruption by just about everyone in government. Start with a clean slate. But that cannot happen.

Think “deep interests”.

View on HN

There's nothing secret about New York's "deep interests" - real estate development is the city's king maker.

I mean the billion-dollar per mile subways, the graft, the garbage collection, holding up mixed concrete deliveries (ruining it), etc., etc. it does not end.

I would think tech could clear up some corruption. Open and transparent accounting would be a good start.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com