I suspect our primary school upbringing of “follow the rules” holds a lot of people back.
Seems like a lot of successful people in business know exactly how far they can step over the line without suffering serious consequences.
Seems like a lot of successful people in business know exactly how far they can step over the line without suffering serious consequences.
Looking at what the growth trajectories are of countries with high corruption, it’s not great, so our growth is probably still reduced by the corruption or lawlessness that still exists.
The alternative is something like oligarchs that extract wealth because of state granted monopolies, corporatism that strangles competition with anti competitive regulation, etc. The accumulation of wealth is all out of proportion and possibly not even correlated in those cases with the production of actual value.