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Meeting the Challenge


Okay, so the four components of a corrupt system (tyranny, brutality, patronage and greed) will always interconnect. For example, greed begets brutality (and most other sick systems) and brutality begets tyranny. You usually...
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The |Squeezed| Middle


By its very design, an hourglass has no room for a middle; so people such as you and me (most likely) caught trying to stay here feel a tightening constriction, and slowly or quickly are propelled up or down - depending on...
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The /Crunched\ Bottom


For most people stuck in the bottom of the hourglass, life is predictable enough. Every day they are forced to compete for shrinking resources and shrinking opportunities while all too often pitted against their own legal...
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The \Dysfunctional/ Top


It shouldn't be a big surprise to many of us to find that as we peel back more and more of the velvet curtains covering the top part of the corruption hourglass, we find a higher and higher concentration of opportunists...
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Pyramids vs. Hourglasses


Before get too far into how corruption operates, let's step back and try to figure out what a corrupted institution looks like. As we saw in our philosophy page, since structures with integrity and dynamic equality look like...
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Avalanche of Corruption


According to vote sizing philosophy: Wealth and power represent two fundamental value systems within which we all operate. (There are subordinate categories, like asceticism, moderation and excess, but we'll stick to the two...
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Corruption


Corruption is a very serious phenomenon that affects us all greatly, yet it is a term that can be applied to many different things and in many different ways. On this page, we're going to try to whittle down our definitions...
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Democracies


Full-blown democracies are based on the principle of maximum sharing of power, and they work well in small-to-medium sized societies, organizations and co-operatives, because they encourage the free exchange of ideas and...
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Republics


Republics are similar to monarchies, except more than just one family holds control. Ideally, republics are based on the idea of limited power-sharing among people who demonstrate that they are natural leaders. Because of...
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Monarchies


Monarchies are similar to dictatorships, only there is a family lineage within which power is passed down from generation to generation. This succession of power through somewhat controlled channels serves hopefully to...
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Dictatorships


Eventually, in the ruthless environment of warlords/chaos, the most forceful warlord will use enough overpowering of the others and internal purges to gain control of the state. Once in place, dictators represent a juicy...
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Warlords/Chaos


Because anarchy doesn’t provide much of the infrastructure needed to deal with larger populations, warlords use force to fill the power vacuum. With warlords, each individual region has its own haphazard rules in place, so...
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Anarchies


True anarchies are positively wonderful in principle, as everyone is responsible only to themselves. However, history - and a lot of underreported news stories - show that in the real world anarchy ain’t so swell. Although...
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Theoretical Regnancies


Over the course of history, people in search of good governance have engaged in an endless tug-of-war between those who pull for ‘rule-by-many’ democracies and those who prefer ‘rule-by-a-select-few’ republics. In addition...
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Gerrymandering


A prerequisite of holding any election is deciding who's going to participate. This is usually done by drawing geographical boundaries. Contrary to what we're told and how the lines dart all over the map, the drawing of...
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