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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Corruption Should Be Taught From Young Age
by
Mauser
on 22/04/2023, 07:18:49 UTC

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.


I am baffled on how big still the corruption problem is in today's world. With all the technological advances we are still not able to make sure that people in power act trustworthy and in good faith. There are basically two ways to get rid of corruption, the first one is your proposal to reach kids at a young age. It sounds nice if we could get only moral superior people in a country where nobody would even consider bribing others or accepting a bribe. The question is how realistic is it to teach all children that, or will there always be some bad kids trying to take the easy way. The second solution would be to get much better oversight and increase the punishment for corruption. Increasing prison sentences is probably not an option as many countries try to get criminals more quickly back into society to have more taxpayers. So the last real solution would be to create more oversight and leave one person in charge of major decisions. The problem here is that all the politicians who accepted bribes in the past will never vote for stronger laws with higher oversight.