[SKRIVA] Lying Commies

  • From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:28:33 +0200

Ett vetenskapligt försök som visar att socialism föder oärlighet:
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607830-more-people-are-exposed-socialism-worse-they-behave-lying-commies?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/lyingcommies

"Lars Hornuf of the University of Munich and Dan Ariely, Ximena 
García-Rada and Heather Mann of Duke University ran an experiment last 
year to test Germans’ willingness to lie for personal gain. Some 250 
Berliners were randomly selected to take part in a game where they could
 win up to €6 ($8).
  The game was simple enough. Each participant was asked to throw a die 40
 times and record each roll on a piece of paper. A higher overall tally 
earned a bigger payoff. Before each roll, players had to commit 
themselves to write down the number that was on either the top or the 
bottom side of the die. However, they did not have to tell anyone which 
side they had chosen, which made it easy to cheat by rolling the die 
first and then pretending that they had selected the side with the 
highest number. If they picked the top and then rolled a two, for 
example, they would have an incentive to claim—falsely—that they had 
chosen the bottom, which would be a five.
  Honest participants would be expected to roll ones, twos and threes as 
often as fours, fives and sixes. But that did not happen: the sheets 
handed in had a suspiciously large share of high numbers, suggesting 
many players had cheated.
  The authors found that, on average, those who had East German roots 
cheated twice as much as those who had grown up in West Germany under 
capitalism. They also looked at how much time people had spent in East 
Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The longer the participants 
had been exposed to socialism, the greater the likelihood that they 
would claim improbable numbers of high rolls."

Resultatet förvånar inte. Kollektivistisk ideologi uppmanar inte direkt till 
personligt ansvar, för att uttrycka det milt. De regimer som upprättats på den 
grunden har också visat sig bli förtryckare, som enbart kunde hålla sig vid 
makten via förljugen propaganda. Utan fungerande marknder är det enda sättet 
att få saker gjort att sticka pengar under bordet, och tjänstemän kräver mutor 
för att de tjänar så dåligt i enundermålig ekonomi.
  Det är detta arv som skapat de enorma korruptionsproblemen i gamla östländer 
(och värst verkar det vara i Ryssland). Länder som närmar sig EU och så 
småningom går med i unionen brukar däremot se minskade korruptionsproblem. EU 
kräver och ger stöd för förbättrat rättsväsende och åtgärder mot korruption.

--Ahrvid

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