According to the newspaper, she reportedly told detectives at her sentencing that she “wouldn’t do all this nonsense if the government gave us more money.” [More]Expecting government to do her stealing for her...I've never seen the theory distilled down to its essentials so elegantly. If anyone deserves an honorary doctorate in political science...
Jared Diamond's 1997 book "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" does a good job of describing the development of the kleptocracy in its many forms. Once the concept was adopted, the disagreements started on how much the government should seize from the governed and how the seized assets would be distributed.
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