How To Corrupt Anything

Some people and professions are, and should be incorruptible, in theory. Thanks to the people at the top, this can be changed.

Case in point, Chautala's arrest for amassing Rs. 100 crores while recruiting 3000 teachers in Haryana (about Rs. 3 lakhs per person). While the amount is not really huge, what it does is:

A) Lowers the quality of the teachers.

B) Leads to corruption in the noble profession of teachers to cover the expenditure of Rs. 3 lakhs.

Both of them, a significant problem for the future generations. 

They not only have to compromise on the quality of education from the unqualified teachers, but also think that it is alright for them to land jobs illegally when they grow up. 

The teachers, on the other hand, will make money by forcing the students to take tuition, leak papers, etc..

If a teacher teaches a half hour class of 40 students, and takes 6 classes daily, it comes to about 720,000 students being exposed to crappy education for a year in just one state alone.

Even if half of these students grow up thinking that corruption is OK, that's a major impact to the society.

Replace that with recruiting police, paper pushers, bean counters, sweepers etc. and the result is the same. Corruption at the top rots everything. In the grand scheme of things, for a man who was accused of amassing Rs. 14,000 crores (in 2006), 100 crore is a measly amount. But what he did to corrupt one more profession can take a lifetime to clean up.

What's my point? Nothing, really. I just wanted to vent this out for the longest of long time and hadn't found the time to write it down. Will this make a difference? None at all.

But, do think about it when you offer someone a bribe. For you, it could be a small amount of Rs. 100, but in the bigger picture, it leads the whole system to rot further.

First, there was nothing, then God said, "Let there be corruption," and then there was darkness.