Why Do We Need To Stop Corruption?

Thoughts from HinLokWAT
Most people agree that corruption has a bad effect on all things. Corruption makes economic growth harder to come by, increases inequality, and makes true democracy harder to develop. (But you shouldn’t go marching illegally in the main roads in Hong Kong with yellow umbrellas and violence.)

Corruption breeds inequalities. When people corrupt, they usually give money to the government officials or people who has of power. I'm not saying that corruption is right or anything, but the poor get less benefits from corruption. So you know, this is no justice.

Corruption also makes economic growth more difficult because it makes business harder to grow. In a government which has a lot of corruption, anyone who wants to start a business needs to bribe a lot of people. Imagine you put a lot of effort into a company and it becomes the best in the country. But then another company comes in with better connections to the corrupt government officials. The officials give the company major favours and put obstacles in your way. This will probably kill your company.

Finally, corruption inhibits the growth of democracy. If governments corrupt, people will not trust them and don’t want to work with them. If governments corrupt, people will compete to control the government so that they can use the government to make money for themselves. I will not say the other things they do but you should know, because all the things that the corrupt people care is making more money for themselves.