Each era has its own form of corruption.
I am currently reading a book about the French Revolution and I am learning something of the history of the Palace of Versailles prior to the revolution itself. To our minds, it seems odd that aristocrats should pay for a job in government, but they did so as an investment, knowing that would be paid back as they …
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