Actually political researchers tend to note that corruption is pretty much unavoidable even in vaguely ‘democratic’ places like India, and that it indeed helps grease the apparatus where citizens want something done. I don’t have sources on me, but this is something I’ve read time and again.
Of course, India now has it really bad such that local officials straight up refuse to do their work. But OTOH, perhaps German bureaucracy could benefit from a little greasing.
Westerners tend to look at things like this from their entrenched perspective and stop at ‘bad thing is bad’, as if their own mechanisms guarantee that everything works simply by the wish of the common man.
Actually political researchers tend to note that corruption is pretty much unavoidable even in vaguely ‘democratic’ places like India, and that it indeed helps grease the apparatus where citizens want something done. I don’t have sources on me, but this is something I’ve read time and again.
Of course, India now has it really bad such that local officials straight up refuse to do their work. But OTOH, perhaps German bureaucracy could benefit from a little greasing.
Westerners tend to look at things like this from their entrenched perspective and stop at ‘bad thing is bad’, as if their own mechanisms guarantee that everything works simply by the wish of the common man.