In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. They get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
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You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
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But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
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