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One of my biggest frustrations while building my first company (KinoSol) was the amount of corruption we faced, in getting our solar food dehydrators to where they needed to be. We had dehydrators in 50 countries--almost all developing countries. Example 1: while our dehydrators were solar powered and should have been exempt from import tax, the port (government) official wouldn't release the product until they were bribed. Example 2: In many places, when we would ask about a price, it was always more if I asked, compared to one of our team members who was native to the area. When @pmarca mentioned the book, The WEIRDest People in the World, I picked it up on Audible. WEIRD = Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic
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After listening to the chapter, UN Diplomats Get Parking Tickets, I'm sitting here laughing, because it's true. Experiment: University students from 23 countries were given dice & a computer. They were to roll the die twice, then report the first roll on the computer. Participants weren't watched. The number was self reported. They were paid the following: 1=$5 2=$10 3=$15 4=$20 5=$25 6=$0 17% chance of rolling any number, right? Self interested benchmark should = 5, right? Below was the reporting by country. WEIRD countries = more individualistic society. Other countries = more kin-based society. What is honesty to me, doesn't necessarily mean honesty to you. Why not report that you rolled 5, if you thought no one was going to be hurt, and you got more $ for your family? PS we had dehydrators in most of these countries.
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