Thailand: crooked to the core
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Thailand: crooked to the core
what can i say that he doesn't?
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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List all the countries that don’t have corruption or moral issues.
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Re: Thailand: crooked to the core
Tomania
Borduria
to name 2
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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LOL. Never heard of either.
Isn’t Borduria a village in India?
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Valverde isn't corrupt
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Endemic corruption is one of Thailand's relatively few redeeming qualities. If you take that away, what's left? Sticky rice.
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Countries are made up of people. Human nature is naturally corrupt. However social rules and values of each society can keep that tendency more (or a lot less) in check. People aren’t altruistic honey bees, that’s why pure communism has always failed.
Just my thoughts.
I would never dream of openly bribing a police officer in the US. Yet in Cambodia, the police expect to bribed to do their job.
Just my thoughts.
I would never dream of openly bribing a police officer in the US. Yet in Cambodia, the police expect to bribed to do their job.
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I wouldn't characterise paying them $10 for a police report as a bribe. The state pays them peanuts knowing they will make it up with little earners on the side. If you don't need their services, you pay nothing, If you do, you pay a few dollars. Think of it as well-aimed taxation - you just pay for public services as and when you need them. The alternative is to give the state 50% of your income in a plethora of different taxes and the government then squanders it. And you still get shit public services.newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:49 am Countries are made up of people. Human nature is naturally corrupt. However social rules and values of each society can keep that tendency more (or a lot less) in check. People aren’t altruistic honey bees, that’s why pure communism has always failed.
Just my thoughts.
I would never dream of openly bribing a police officer in the US. Yet in Cambodia, the police expect to bribed to do their job.
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It lays the groundwork for corruption at the most basic level of police services, the only way is up!Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:44 pmI wouldn't characterise paying them $10 for a police report as a bribe. The state pays them peanuts knowing they will make it up with little earners on the side. If you don't need their services, you pay nothing, If you do, you pay a few dollars. Think of it as well-aimed taxation - you just pay for public services as and when you need them. The alternative is to give the state 50% of your income in a plethora of different taxes and the government then squanders it. And you still get shit public services.newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:49 am Countries are made up of people. Human nature is naturally corrupt. However social rules and values of each society can keep that tendency more (or a lot less) in check. People aren’t altruistic honey bees, that’s why pure communism has always failed.
Just my thoughts.
I would never dream of openly bribing a police officer in the US. Yet in Cambodia, the police expect to bribed to do their job.
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Re: Thailand: crooked to the core
I'd like to hear more about the soapies.
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