7th July 2016, 5:17 AM
"Could be seen as corrupt"? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
I don't care if it's normal, or if it works, corruption is corruption, and these "tiny little deals" are the sort of corruption I'm talking about. In fact, that's what "corruption" kinda means. What to an outsider would be a conflict of interest becomes "normalized" over the years until the insiders all say "that's just how it works, no one outside would understand, so we have to keep it a secret". If it's so innocent, why not just record all these backroom deals and put them on Youtube, for all to see and judge for themselves?
I don't care if it's normal, or if it works, corruption is corruption, and these "tiny little deals" are the sort of corruption I'm talking about. In fact, that's what "corruption" kinda means. What to an outsider would be a conflict of interest becomes "normalized" over the years until the insiders all say "that's just how it works, no one outside would understand, so we have to keep it a secret". If it's so innocent, why not just record all these backroom deals and put them on Youtube, for all to see and judge for themselves?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)