It is not a binary choice. My grandma can get the care via a bribe and the next day I can go join the local mafia.
Not like a US corporation, the machine of machines, systems of systems. An actual mafia that breaks down the government and replaces official services with a protection racket around people's families and uses physical violence to enforce arbitrary mafia business norms.
The real criminal mafia does not answer to a doctor who takes the wrong bribes and that doctor may go home that evening to find his house/family/prized thing to be in jeopardy. The mafia built on family and religious connections that can't be bought out, and will balance out a non-working government when it fails.
The Soviet system props up the normal structure just enough to leech off it. That is a luxury of Russian culture that doesn't survive elsewhere, for very good reason.
Suffering isn't an excuse for corruption that hurts basic services for the middle/lower class.
Lie, bribe, cheat and steal for all the yacht money and control over steel mills, between upper class toffs, I don't care.
When your corruption stops society from working for the majority, or oppresses the majority, then you have become the problem.
Not like a US corporation, the machine of machines, systems of systems. An actual mafia that breaks down the government and replaces official services with a protection racket around people's families and uses physical violence to enforce arbitrary mafia business norms.
The real criminal mafia does not answer to a doctor who takes the wrong bribes and that doctor may go home that evening to find his house/family/prized thing to be in jeopardy. The mafia built on family and religious connections that can't be bought out, and will balance out a non-working government when it fails.
The Soviet system props up the normal structure just enough to leech off it. That is a luxury of Russian culture that doesn't survive elsewhere, for very good reason.
Suffering isn't an excuse for corruption that hurts basic services for the middle/lower class.
Lie, bribe, cheat and steal for all the yacht money and control over steel mills, between upper class toffs, I don't care.
When your corruption stops society from working for the majority, or oppresses the majority, then you have become the problem.