These equal chances do not lead to wealth. For prosperity, you need decades of work, disappointment, and only after that - achievements.

Former South Korean President Pak Keng Hye sentenced to 24 years in prison. She became another head of state, who will have to be in prison for corruption crimes. The abuse of Pak Kun Hye is related to the interests of one of the leading corporations of South Korea - Samsung, whose actual leader is also under arrest.

The sentencing of Pak Kun Hye almost coincided with the corruption charges that the prosecutor's office put forward against her predecessor as president of the country, Lee Myung-bak. The former president is suspected of organizing an entire corrupt network and committing a number of other offenses.

With the nomination of these accusations of "non-judge" presidents of South Korea, there is almost no. Lee Myung-bak was the last. His predecessor, No Mu Hyun, overcame impeachment, but at the end of his term, he committed suicide.

Corruption was also blamed on his predecessors, among whom were very different people - generals and human rights defenders, dictators and laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize. But they all had one thing in common: suspicions of corruption abuses. And, at the same time, these people are the fathers of the "Korean economic miracle". How can this be?.

Very simple. Ukrainians were persuaded that a victory in the fight against corruption guarantees an automatic improvement in welfare, and the preservation of the oligarchy and corrupt government is the way to the preservation of poverty and poverty. Both are false. An oligarchic state with a corrupt elite can successfully reform and be rich - South Korea is an example of this. And a state that overcomes corruption can remain poor for decades, there are too many such examples.

Of course, it's best to win corruption, and end poverty with poverty.. But this does not work for everyone.

I have no doubt that now self-appointed "anti-corruption activists" will come running and say that I "justify the authorities" and call not to fight corruption. So - all the way around. I am a determined supporter of the fight against corruption simply because I am sure: the decades of life in honest poverty are better than life in unrighteous wealth.

I'm just calling not to lie. I call not to assert that one necessarily follows from another that the victory over corruption will necessarily lead to the improvement of well-being. Because when it does not, then people come back to the usual paternalistic state, they want to hand over their destiny to corrupt officials or oligarchs.

A good example of this is Georgia, in which the fight against corruption led to the restoration of the oligarchy and the marginalization of the fighters.

Corruption is not fought for the rapid growth of the standard of living, but for the sake of creating equal chances for all.

In order for everyone to have equal access to the creation of business, education, social guarantees. And that no one had access to the state budget and friendship with the presidents. At the same time, it is clear that not everyone will take advantage of such opportunities, that a minority of citizens will be fabulously rich, most will live at an average level, a minority will remain in poverty and depend on state assistance. This is a non-corrupt country.

If the goal - just quickly to make people live better, then you need not a non-corrupt, but a corporate state. The one we are already living in. Only this state needs to be made much more efficiently, to enable corporations to earn more and pay their employees more. But you need to understand exactly what these workers will have no chance, except how to work for the corporation. And their children will not have. And their grandchildren.

Maybe someone like this option. Not to me. Because South Korea is Asia. And Ukraine is Europe. Europe is built precisely by giving equal chances to its citizens.

Understanding that this provision does not lead to wealth. That for someone an equal chance - as in many successful countries of Central Europe and the Baltics - it does not wait for prosperity, and immediately leave. That we are waiting for decades of work and disappointment. And only after that, there may be achievements.

But every Ukrainian will know that above his head is not the ceiling that limits his future. What is above his head is only the sky.

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