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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by crispinb on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:54PM (#22596869)
Nonsense. There is hardly a local government in Australia not hopelessly corrupted by local real estate interests. In many nations local corruption is endemic right down to every neighbourhood police station. Size isn't the question: money's corruption of power operates at all scales.
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by pgt on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:04PM (#22598529)
Size is absolutely the question. There is always corruption, but in small municipalities at least the scale of corruption is contained. In a sufficiently local area the corrupt has to brush shoulders with his unwilling benefactors and be shamed.
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Re:NPM Is Joining GitHub by crispinb on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:30PM (#22598822)
Empirically, that's plainly false. Corruption declines, on any level, when the right policies & incentives are in place.
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