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0 points1024core10y ago0 comments

Corruption may be a problem in the US too, but, having lived here for a decade, I can assure you I've never been asked nor offered a single bribe. Corruption doesn't affect the common man directly here. In any case: just because it's in some other country, makes it all right to do it in India, right? Instead of racing for the bottom, why not try racing to the top, and compare India to Sweden, Norway, etc.?

Secondly: I never brought up privatization.

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kalyanganjam10y ago

>>Corruption may be a problem in the US too, but, having lived here for a decade, I can assure you I've never been asked nor offered a single bribe.

Not being asked for bribe is not necessarily absence of corruption. For a crash course on How Real world corruption works. Great place to start is https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realwo...

>>Corruption doesn't affect the common man directly here.

Incorrect. Read the link above

>>In any case: just because it's in some other country, makes it all right to do it in India, right?

am 99.99% sure poster is not suggesting it is right thing. Hust saying it is not an India only problem and that it exists everywhere.

1024coreOP10y ago

>> Not being asked for bribe is not necessarily absence of corruption. For a crash course on How Real world corruption works. Great place to start is https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realwo....

Having in lived in India most of my life, I don't need to read an Economist article to find out what corruption is. Want to get a passport? Pay a bribe. Want to construct an addition to you house? Pay a bribe (or just do it illegally). The list goes on. In countries like US, Sweden, Canada, etc at least you're not hammered with corruption requests in your day-to-day existence.

kalyanganjam10y ago

What you are describing is bribery. Corruption is a closely related and slightly different thing.

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0 points1024core10y ago0 comments

Secondly: I never brought up privatization.

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kalyanganjam10y ago

>>Corruption may be a problem in the US too, but, having lived here for a decade, I can assure you I've never been asked nor offered a single bribe.

>>Corruption doesn't affect the common man directly here.

Incorrect. Read the link above

>>In any case: just because it's in some other country, makes it all right to do it in India, right?

am 99.99% sure poster is not suggesting it is right thing. Hust saying it is not an India only problem and that it exists everywhere.

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kalyanganjam10y ago

What you are describing is bribery. Corruption is a closely related and slightly different thing.

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