Comment on How does the Chinese government even work
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wish I had a source on this, but I heard that bribery of government officials is the norm. They don’t get paid much so it’s expected they take bribes. But their bosses keep them in line. And the weird thing is that it actually works kind of well to make sure things get done, compared to the gridlock faced when trying to build houses or public transit in most cities in the US.
Speaking of bribery, I still don’t understand how the fuck my mother managed to give birth to me after she already gave birth to my older brother.
She told me she “bribed” an official to “look the other way”… idk 🤷♂️. The the fact is, somehow I exist in direct violation of the “one child policy”.
Don’t they execute people for this these days. I was there a few months ago and there are “anti corruption education centres” and I do know of executions for this coming from anecdotal sources
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
It’s true afaik. Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi