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#1099 Robert Breedlove On Money, Power, War & Bitcoin

The Pomp Podcast

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The Dangers of Symbolic Structures

I would define corruption as participants inside of a symbolic structure that understand the rules and expectations to be one thing. If an individual operating in a position of authority inside that symbolic structure will now bend or twist those rules for private gain, that is corruption. And we know corruption precedes self destruction, right? Have you ever had a corrupted hard drive? have you ever seen the endgame of a corrupt government? Look what happened to Enron, right? They bent this reality of public accountability for private gain and vaporized $70 billion of wealth in the process,. That is, that's corruption in a nutshell.

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