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makes me wonder, why aren't the western government as corrupt? what's the whole mechanism keeping things functioning?
So when bribes do happen it’s for much greater amounts (or nebulous, hard-to-trace things like favours), which rules out bribes for minor infractions.
makes me wonder, why aren't the western government as corrupt? what's the whole mechanism keeping things functioning?
Relative poverty and enforcement: if a cop accepts a bribe they can lose their job. It’s not worth accepting £20 (or even £2000) bribe and forfeit larger future earnings. So when bribes do happen it’s for much greater amounts (or nebulous, hard-to-trace things like favours), which rules out bribes for minor infractions.
We have cases in India where someone was held to not having been commited a crime 30 years after being first caught taking few bucks.
They lost their life, earnings, social status and in the end a judge says "you are free to go" but there is no compensation. https://www.news18.com/india/declared-innocent-after-30-year...
Or this case
https://indian.community/news/delhi-high-court-upholds-convi...
But it doesn't mean corruption isn't caught or people don't care. They do, it's just people get away with a lot of things
I will give a different context of it.
Many people "do actually" commit tax fraud. It's just real.
Then you have people who don't do "compliance" and government officials see this as potential cash cow.
Then you have third category of "clients". These people just are unlucky. The officer "wants" to get a certain sum of money as bribes so they are indiscriminate in who they target. Any fully compliant client "has to" pay to avoid "further complications" and they quietly pay because they don't want hassles.
This website was built by end users who see "oh why do I have to pay a bribe" when most likely they have committed tax fraud and just want to be quiet about it.
Example.
People calling fake deductions in their income tax returns or giving fake donations and claiming deductions. People often say "oh I didn't know" but it'd actually tax fraud so why not face full music of the law if you do it?
Could providing a leaderboard drive competition in looking for the highest amount of bribes?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What the west calls corruption the east calls tradition.
the west just formalizes the expedited processing fee vis “due process” or a “deferred prosecution agreement”
Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"