tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128859103258265367.post8370146027315617633..comments2024-03-07T20:42:19.599+05:30Comments on വര്ക്കേഴ്സ് ഫോറം: Roots of the malaiseവര്ക്കേഴ്സ് ഫോറംhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00731641929122914433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128859103258265367.post-59185164454846837912011-08-12T22:30:40.083+05:302011-08-12T22:30:40.083+05:30Any public servant who privatises public property ...Any public servant who privatises public property at throwaway prices, even when he or she receives no direct gratification for it, is invariably hailed for this act by the corporate media, by the Bretton Woods institutions and by the global financial community as being a “visionary”, a bold promoter of “entrepreneurship” and a “liberal” thinker in tune with the modern times. This brings in its train a host of possible rewards: sundry “best Minister in Asia” (or similar) awards, lecture tours, World Bank assignments, offers of cushy corporate placements, various remunerative advisory roles, and post-retirement sinecures. None of this, however, will be considered “corruption”. “Corruption”, in short, is confined exclusively to gratification received directly as quid pro quo; it does not cover the far more pervasive case of gratification received from the system as a whole. The current crusade against corruption, therefore, by not looking at the system as a whole, misses the wood for the trees.വര്ക്കേഴ്സ് ഫോറംhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00731641929122914433noreply@blogger.com