[quote=FlyerInHi]
I think corruption (like work or working harder) has something to do with impressing and providing for your family/friends.[/quote]

Corruption starts with minor indiscretions. It’s easy to award a contract to a family member or buddy that you’ve known all these years. It’s much more difficult to be impartial and hire the best bid. All of us do it to some extent. How many hired a family member or family friend to be their Realtor even though they sucked at the job.

How many people try to claim disability, unemployment insureance, welfare, when they know they really shouldn’t be eligible. It’s all the same thing where we rationalize bad behavior because somebody else did it or somebody else did worse.