Hypocrisy Index

Yeah baby, as I said before the Hypocrisy Index is correlated strongly to GDP per capita and even more strongly to the spread in wealth within a country.

In poor countries you have straight-out illegal corruption. In rich countries you have legalised corruption, aka hypocrisy.

For example, in Australia we have two major supermarket chains, two political parties and four banks and a number of other segments with limited numbers of key players. We have allowed sole import distributors to gouge us for decades. And why?

Because we have legalised corruption. The entrenched players simply garner influence through a zillion means (lobbying, brown paper bags, legislation, marketing, etc) and get our legislators to create barriers to competition on the basis of all sorts of hypocrisy.

For example, health and safety concerns, environmental concerns, Australian standards, Australian jobs, straight out marketing bullshit via tabloid media, you name it. And we certainly don’t have anti-trust in our constitution…the only thing we trust in is hope, luck, kangaroos, emus and the Queen, maybe God and the odd trout.

Transparency is very opaque and hypocrisy reigns. No wonder the poor buggers on the boats think this is an asylum.