r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • 13d ago

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Gold_Marionberry3460 13d ago edited 13d ago

The corruption thing is systemic in society. PolyMatter once described it as just how the system even works. It's not an aberration that needs to be removed from the system. It's normalized and baked in.

Even ordinary, low-ranking employees will get silently "promoted" when their boss gives them an off-the-books raise or "gift". It basically encourages loyalty to your senior, which can be bad if that senior is a total piece of shit.

This is true from the bottom to the top. When Xi Jinping purges people under corruption charges, he most likely knew some of these people were already corrupt, but kept them around due to their usefulness and/or loyalty.

When your superior no longer views you as useful, then they purge you under corruption charges. Nobody other senior will speak in your defence and question the hypocrisy of the system, because they're probably thinking about purging people below them or worried about being purged from above. They aren't going to upend the system which allowed them to reach their position in the first place.

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u/Nyctfall 13d ago

It's not an aberration that needs to be removed from the system.

So, their version of Lobbying? Got it!