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Board Economics
Re: A Resource Based Economy
by
mobodick
on 02/10/2011, 22:52:00 UTC

There is no such thing , you are 90% result of your environment.
 If you were born in middle east you would most likely pray to Allah 5 times a day while hating Yankees at the same time and human nature would have nothing to do with it.

Genes are only predispositions but environment is the key influence how you actually act.
In countries like Sweden where culturally corruption is something to be embarrassed of, there is very little of it.

But your genes tell you that you want to form a social group.
And they make you make a virtual boundary, them and us.
Then suddenly us is better than they, etc, etc, etc, history is full of it.
Don't think for a minute that education is the cure-all for this.
This mechanism is in our genes and it dictates a large part of our social behaviour.

Corruption is more a signal of a failing government than anything else.