{"id":53263,"date":"2024-07-16T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=53263"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:30:17","slug":"qotd-corruption-and-crony-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/16\/qotd-corruption-and-crony-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Corruption and crony capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When leftists look at the private sector, they see tips of icebergs \u2013 for every businessperson caught gouging the consumer, they insist there are a thousand under the surface waiting to trap the unwary. Whereas a libertarian like myself sees the mirror image \u2013 the odd bad civil servant caught is not a rotten apple as they claim, but the tip of another large iceberg.<\/p>\n

Surely we have seen enough to know that large organisations like the government and their crony capitalists in the corporate sector are deeply resistant to independent investigations, whistleblowers and all other genuine threats to their status?<\/p>\n

Whereas those that battle away in the competitive private sector don’t even get the chance to be that corrupt \u2013 they either treat their customers and employees well, or they crumble into dust like the costumed retards in the entertainment industry are doing so reliably these days, those beloved of progressive dunces the world over.<\/p>\n

There are few cover-ups in the world of dogwalking and fishmongering \u2013 these people do a good job or they get told to piss off by their customers. But in the public sector and the corporate world that depend upon it …?<\/p>\n

When we catch a corrupt civil servant or corporate lackey, we are seeing the Tip of An Iceberg. But when we catch a corrupt landscape gardener or carpenter, we are finding a Rotten Apple.<\/p>\n

My claim is that terrible government officials and corrupt crony capitalists are the both the tips of icebergs, so the cries from Left and Right about rotten applies need to go away. Those that work in the public sector or depend upon their relationship with it, are routinely terrible and usually without consequence.<\/p>\n

Alex Noble, “Corruption In The Coercive And Voluntary Sectors: Rotten Apples? Or The Tips of Icebergs?”, Continental Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2019-12-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When leftists look at the private sector, they see tips of icebergs \u2013 for every businessperson caught gouging the consumer, they insist there are a thousand under the surface waiting to trap the unwary. Whereas a libertarian like myself sees the mirror image \u2013 the odd bad civil servant caught is not a rotten apple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,831,84,41],"tags":[509,363,727,1020],"class_list":["post-53263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-quotations","tag-civilservice","tag-corruption","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dR5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90432,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53263\/revisions\/90432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}