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by peterlk
2912 days ago
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> Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? The fundamental problem with corruption, and the reason that corrupt dictatorships do not work in practice is that people need to be able to keep the things they produce. If, say, you are hungry, you might start a community garden to feed yourself and your neighbors. However, you can only feed yourself if men with guns don't decide that the garden is actually theirs. If you expand this system out to every facet of society, then there's no point in anyone helping anyone else because any public good is sucked up by corrupt people who claim it for themselves. Everyone must get by on less than is worth stealing, or they have to do it in secret. |
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Corrupt dictatorships do work in practice.
They don't work for the common people, but then that's kind of not the point of a corrupt dictatorship.