[tryitnow]

I don't know if there's much that Gates can do about corruption. That's something that might have to take it's natural course and weed itself out (like it has partly done in the US and other developed nations).

In the mean time I think Gates wants to do something rather than nothing and things like mosquito nets apparently do save lives. The people whose lives are saved may not be able to prosper, but they're most likely grateful for not dying of malaria.

[DigitalJack]

I don't know. Corruption in Mexico is getting worse. I don't think it's going to work itself out.

[raisedbyninjas]

Maybe Gates can create their own municipality complete with a justice system and law enforcement. Then they redirect all of their aid for that region to within those borders. If the other native cities can adhere to the same standards, then they become eligible for aid.

[ant6n]

Corruption in the US seems to be getting worse too. Also other first world countries.

[Cheezmeister]

"Seems" is not the same as "is". In the US at least, I see not corruption so much as deeply entrenched dysfunctional incentives.

It's not malice or conspiracy or even stupidity. It's simply the way the US's political, economic, and industrial systems (alternately known as THE MAN) co-evolved.

[ant6n]

First world corruption doesn't directly rely on bribes, people wouldn't experience it like they do in the third world. Here it is more advanced. It comes as crazy conflict-of-interest creating campaign contributions, as giving contracts to friends, as corporatism, lobbyists writing laws. A strong sense of plutocracy. Most contracts the public gives out these days seem to have insane costs.

Yes I wrote 'seem', not 'is', because I can't prove it.