Corruption is justice

You're driving a nice foreign car and a policeman stops you. You “agree” and move on. You have a good foreign car, but his salary doesn’t allow it, but he wants to live the same way. Using his power, he restores justice in his soul.

An entrepreneur has money to build a house, an official does not have that kind of money, but also wants to. So he restores justice by giving permission for a bribe. He understands that when this entrepreneur builds a house and sells apartments, he, by the standards of an official, will earn unrealistic money, but a good official does not rob a businessman, but takes money that is “ridiculous” by his standards, that is, he “helps” the entrepreneur and considers himself wonderful a citizen who takes care of his family and does not allow these penny-pinchers to take all the “unearned” profits for themselves.

Robin Hood is in our heads. We constantly restore justice, but, unlike the latter, in our favor. The seller, who is stealing goods from his store, talks about corruption, saying that it causes all the troubles, subconsciously restoring justice. The owner will not become poor, but I need it.

During the Soviet era, everything was stolen from factories. If a person worked in the canteen, the house was full of food. Officials are getting haircuts by security forces, also restoring justice, and a redistribution of resources is taking place.

A distorted understanding of justice, greed and laziness are the pillars of our corruption. The more you have, the more “hairdressers” you have. A person with low income is faced with grassroots corruption, at the level of a chocolate bar or 100 rubles for a certificate.

How to overcome this? No way. Fighters against corruption - the same hairdressers who earn money or political capital - are the same Robin Hoods participating in the same redistribution.

The waiter took the tip. Will you judge him? This is abuse of official position! Unearned income! Why are they unemployed? Did you like the service? So you paid him and he will not pay taxes on this amount. He didn’t get a job for a salary, but for the opportunity to earn money from tips.

Corruption is not as terrible as arbitrariness and demagoguery. This is what really slows down the system. An official who takes bribes is not as scary as a lawless person. A traffic cop took money from you because you exceeded the speed limit, that’s one thing, but the same situation when you didn’t break the law, but are extorted from you is already lawlessness, it’s much more dangerous. The official-demagogue blurs everything, does not solve anything, because he is not able to solve anything, moves the needle, rants, and slows down any process. Officials must be “tested for demagoguery” and removed from all levels of government, because there is no point in their work.

Corruption is a shadow economy. Its budget is huge. Sometimes it acts as a safety net for the country as a whole. Yes, we have two economies, and nothing can be done about it. When the main one bends, the shadow one supports the state and people. When there were no boots in stores in the USSR, where did people “shop”? If the official one can’t, the shadow one will help.

I repeat, the system is not allowed to develop by lawless people and demagogues. Lawless people disgust the authorities. Demagogues solve nothing and hinder development.

PS Terms.

Corruption is a term that usually refers to the use by an official of his powers and the rights entrusted to him for personal gain, contrary to the law and moral principles.

Lawlessness - actions that go beyond any limits of written and unwritten laws.

Demagoguery is a set of oratorical and polemical techniques and means that allow you to mislead the audience and win them over to your side. Instead of proving the truth of his positions and refuting the argumentation of his opponent, a demagogue can resort to the ad hominem technique - criticizing not the arguments, but the personality of the opponent, trying to convince the audience that the opponent is a bad, unworthy, ignorant, biased or hypocritical person.