raghu wrote: > Surely there are cultural differences? Someone like Lloyd "God's work" > Blankfein seems quite happy to damage the US economy, humiliate the > Federal government etc to increase his personal profits. I get the > impression that the Chinese elite are much less likely to do anything > to blemish their national glory for individual motives (or maybe the > individual incentives in the CCP are set up that way...) Of course it > is another story that "national glory" has nothing to do with the > well-being of the people...
As a friend pointed out years ago with reference to the Jesuits,[*] there's a difference between individual corruption (e.g., Blankfein and his ilk) and collective corruption (e.g. the Pentagon or CCP leadership). -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. [*] Despite vows of poverty, some communities of Jesuits are quite rich -- as groups. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
