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This was true in the US before we created all these stupid regulations, which is why they were created. 1700s/1800s, "spoils system", etc. That is the whole reason the regulations (and attendant overhead) exist.

(I bootstrapped a US government contractor and have worked for several others.)

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Can you clarify your point, were you saying that the US had 3rd world-levels of corruption before the regulation, or were you saying that the US was as fine as it is today, before the regulations.

The former- before the regulations in the 1800's there wasn't even really a concept of 'third-world levels of corruption' as it was universal to every government.

The former. Google the "spoils system."

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