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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by op03 on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:08AM (#23870060)
Mindlessly ambitious networks of people who care about themselves more than anything else exist in all countries. Google distribution of personality types within a population. They are weirdly similar across cultures.

Where resources are low and there is not enough to go around for the most ambitious and driven, there "punishment" for wasting each others time and resources is more extreme.

If Facebook or Google or Twitter, one day in the future is sophisticated enough to label the most "corrupt"/"corruptible" individuals in a population based on all their data how would you "punish" all of them if it is 30% the population?

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:49AM (#23870428)
The same way you punish other crimes.

Corruption is crime, not vaguely acceptable opportunism. It has very direct negative social, political, and economic consequences. The fact that someone is robbing people using a company and/or a political organisation instead of guns and knives isn't an excuse - especially not when the sums involved can be so large.

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