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by llamaLord 864 days ago
To be clear, I 100% agree. That's why I refer to it as "structural". No individual or even group of individuals is actively doing anything corrupt, but the overall structure creates an environment where self-interested individuals create an outcome that is VERY difficult to distinguish vs the outcome you would get from more obtuse corruption.

It's more akin to the Chinese concept of Guangxi (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi).

The problem is that where Guangxi ends and corruption begins is a VERY murky question with no clear way of finding an answer.