&gt; And parts of the developed world, like the US, are just as corrupt (or more corrupt) than India, only in different and potentially even more damaging ways, like having an election system captured by corporations.<p>I&#x27;ll just have to disagree. The one thing every single Brazilian comments after traveling to the US or Western Europe is how honest and rule-based everything is.<p>You do have a corruption problem in the US, and it seems to be growing. Just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s as big as in the developing countries.