&quot;Seems&quot; is not the same as &quot;is&quot;. In the US at least, I see not corruption so much as deeply entrenched dysfunctional incentives.<p>It&#x27;s not malice or conspiracy or even stupidity. It&#x27;s simply the way the US&#x27;s political, economic, and industrial systems (alternately known as THE MAN) co-evolved.