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		pgt on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM Is Joining GitHub Size is absolutely the question. There is always corruption, but in small municipalities at least the scale of corruption is contained. In a sufficiently local area the corrupt has to brush shoulders with his unwilling benefactors and be shamed.

crispinb on March 16, 2020 [–]

Empirically, that's plainly false. Corruption declines, on any level, when the right policies & incentives are in place.

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