I can buy that for types of rule-violations that will eventually get caught, punishing rule-violations severely and instilling values to avoid them is a good and cost-effective approach. But some types of rule-violations are complicated to detect, and if people want to prevent those, they have to proactively gather information or create broader limitations, both of which seem costly.
In the specific case of corruption, in Denmark (and most of the EU? idk) we have something called “udbud”, where basically when the government needs some firm to do a job, it has to create a description of the job and put it out on the free market. From what I’ve heard, udbud is super chaotic, costly and unreliable, and I bet it could be done more efficiently if more flexibility was allowed on the part of the decision-makers (consider: most companies do not seem to use udbud in the same rigid way). However, that would trade off against corruption in complex ways.
Within the region were L and R are both cheap, I agree that L and R are both good. But advanced forms of bad behavior often don’t seem to get legibly detected, which prevents the automatic approach that you seem to be suggesting.
I feel like we have different things in mind.
I can buy that for types of rule-violations that will eventually get caught, punishing rule-violations severely and instilling values to avoid them is a good and cost-effective approach. But some types of rule-violations are complicated to detect, and if people want to prevent those, they have to proactively gather information or create broader limitations, both of which seem costly.
In the specific case of corruption, in Denmark (and most of the EU? idk) we have something called “udbud”, where basically when the government needs some firm to do a job, it has to create a description of the job and put it out on the free market. From what I’ve heard, udbud is super chaotic, costly and unreliable, and I bet it could be done more efficiently if more flexibility was allowed on the part of the decision-makers (consider: most companies do not seem to use udbud in the same rigid way). However, that would trade off against corruption in complex ways.
Within the region were L and R are both cheap, I agree that L and R are both good. But advanced forms of bad behavior often don’t seem to get legibly detected, which prevents the automatic approach that you seem to be suggesting.