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I never would have imagined someone idealizing third world corruption. Shits corrupt and prevents these places from developing functioning institutions and governance; the first world used to have the same type of arrangement until stable democratic institutions took over. Pretending its some stable existence is a weird idealization of a shitty scenario.



John Mcaffe isn't really idolizing it. His guide is explaining to otherwise hapless western tourists.

Of course since he wrote this he had to return to America to flee a murder investigation so you should take everything he says with a grain of salt.


He's far from the first to do so, although Ashis Nandy had different reasons

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-nandy-affair




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