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Imagine a committee of 10 people granting funding to a firm to commercialise NFTs of digital fashion where the owner of the company is also a member of the committee. The company isn't even a real company but a general partnership without limited liability. Your inquiries into this affair under the public information act get stonewalled by a obscure law that where voted on as part of the budget of 2018. When members are asked about this incestuous relationship they react in an indigenous fashion saying there can not be a conflict of interest because they abstained from voting on their own project. You make some noice about this and you get ostracised. This is just one example.

A dutch sociologist has coined a term for this calling it network corruption, we had to invent a word for it because it is so prevalent, there isn't even a page about this on the English language Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwerkcorruptie