Is it China's great pioneering work to "cultivate honesty through greed"

Is it China's great pioneering work to cultivate honesty through greed?

greed is one of human nature, and global anti-corruption can't be separated from two ways: one is belief, which limits corruption through moral and ethical public opinion and psychology; The second is the system, which limits corruption by rewarding and punishing and limiting the conditions of occurrence. It is not difficult to find that the former is ineffective, whether Catholic Mexico, Islamic Indonesia or Buddhist Thailand are countries with serious corruption, while the latter has limited effect. For example, Russia and China have complex anti-corruption systems but are seriously corrupt. As a result, everyone focused on several countries and regions with clean government models. Singapore, the United States and Hong Kong all fall into this category. The sayings of "high salary and honesty" and "greed and honesty" became popular.

why doesn't a high salary work?

The salary of ordinary civil servants in Singapore is only about 85% of that of private enterprises. In 28, the average annual salary of civil servants in Singapore was about $3,, but the per capita GDP of Singapore was 12 times that of China. If divided by 12, the annual salary of civil servants in China should be about 17, RMB. By comparison, the salary of civil servants in China has already surpassed that of Singapore.

Officials always think about their own decent life. Have you considered the decent life of 1.3 billion people? China civil servants say that their salaries are low, but they rarely hear of resignations. On the contrary, thousands of people compete for a civil servant position every year. Do you think the salaries of civil servants in China are low or high? At present, the salary of civil servants in China is three times the average salary of employees in China, and about five times the minimum wage stipulated by the government. In recent years, the salary of civil servants has increased by almost double digits, which is twice the growth rate of per capita GDP. But the salary of civil servants is high, has it really curbed corruption? Wages have gone up, but the appetite of corrupt officials has increased. Do you think this is "high salary for honesty" or "high salary for greed"?

Integrity depends not on salary but on law. For example, Singapore's Civil Servants' Disciplinary Regulations stipulate that civil servants cannot accept gifts and entertainment from the public. If they accept gifts, they must truthfully report them and hand them over to the public if the value exceeds S $5. Otherwise, they will be punished as bribery and corruption crimes and face five to seven years' imprisonment. The Singapore government issues a diary to every civil servant every year, and civil servants must record their public and private activities every day, which is reviewed by the supervision department. In foreign countries, it is impossible for government departments to give bonuses to civil servants, because the funding approval process is very strict, and even the government cannot spend money at will. Civil servants have high stability and social status, which has been included in the content of satisfying personal needs, which makes up for the disadvantage of low wages, which is also the reason why the average salary of civil servants in various countries is lower than that of private enterprises.

is raising the salary of civil servants conducive to promoting domestic consumption in China? This is a wrong idea. According to the theory of diminishing marginal benefit of consumption, the higher the income, the lower the increase of consumption year-on-year. For example, if a person earns 1, yuan a month, he may spend it in 6 yuan, accounting for 6%; When his monthly income is 1, yuan, he may spend 5, yuan, but only accounts for 5%. Therefore, it is better to let one person take 1 thousand yuan to drive consumption than to let 1 people take 1 thousand yuan to drive consumption benefit. Contrary to this idea, the high salary of civil servants stimulates foreign consumption, such as studying abroad, emigrating, investing overseas, buying high-end consumer brands, etc. Therefore, they are used to seeing themselves as vested interests, being superior to others, and gradually opposing the people, which has occurred in all countries.

is "corruption for honesty" a brilliant initiative?

The income of senior officials and civil servants have different orientations, and there is a big gap between them, both in the United States and Singapore. The salary of ministers is ten times higher than that of the lowest civil servants, even higher than that of presidents and prime ministers. However, in terms of welfare, there is little difference between them. In foreign countries, civil servants rarely have buses, that is, senior officials such as presidents and prime ministers. They usually need to take buses or drive private cars to and from work. ? In reality, the income of high-ranking officials is the weakest link in China's anti-corruption model.

The above-mentioned model of "fostering honesty through greed" is also put forward around senior officials. Specifically, it is based on the principle of "rewarding according to merit". Whoever has made great contributions to the party and supported the leaders more, then these official positions must be rewarded accordingly, even without being bound by civil servants' assessment. The ancient feudal society also adhered to the principle of "rewarding according to work". At first, it engaged in the enfeoffment system in an attempt to gain the support of the vassals, but on the contrary, it caused the vassals to become kings, so it engaged in the county and county system, engaged in the selection of imperial examinations, and paid officials. As a result, it was still impossible to get rid of corruption. The model of rewarding according to work is based on the pyramid power structure, and all people serve the top person to form corresponding credit, and the top person is rewarded according to work accordingly. Before the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong, there was also a period when police corruption was rampant. The reason was that police officers and police inspectors were involved in the security work in pieces, and the upper authorities did not supervise them, but the lower authorities took the opportunity to take advantage of it. It was not until the establishment of the ICAC that it was completely changed.

In order to prevent cadres from accepting bribes, the top leaders of a city have come up with a method of "fostering honesty through greed": several important officials are allowed to contract an area to ensure that the GDP index is reached, thus obtaining the ownership of a piece of land in this area, which can be contracted for development by their relatives. This model skillfully unifies the GDP index and the greedy nature of officials, and at the same time basically eliminates the situation that these officials accept ordinary bribes. For the leader of this highest city, he has achieved both GDP achievements and achievements in reducing corruption and bribery. However, the "privileged profits" obtained by subordinate officials from national land rights and interests are amazing, which leads to the prevalence of naked officials. According to the Constitution, the state land right belongs to all the people of China, but now it is legally used for subcontracting to officials at all levels, and finally it is cashed out by these officials and flows abroad to become private wealth.

Some people say, "A monk can't walk away from a temple, but a naked official can't walk away, but the land remains in China". This kind of words is totally devoid of economic concept. Real estate development is to push up housing prices through various types of construction. It took three generations for people to save money to buy a small share of it, but the resulting profits were arbitrage to foreign countries. This part of the funds could not be returned to domestic consumption and construction, but flowed into external account. This is like not returning home for the collection of domestic export materials and staying abroad to buy US Treasury bonds. In the end, this domestic fund gap must be filled by the currency issued by China government, which dilutes the value of RMB wealth in the hands of all China people. The only difference is that the US dollar income is still in the name of China Bank, while the evasion of naked officials has become their private account deposits. What they left behind was not land wealth, but land "negative assets"!

The only way to reverse this "rewarding according to merit" mode is to realize national private ownership of land. Instead of sub-contracting land to senior officials, we should learn from the United States and pre-allocate it to the whole community (including urban areas, counties and towns) by region, encourage private people to buy land, and allocate the land income to the corresponding community for public construction and welfare use according to the head, which is special and inviolable. Moreover, officials at all levels of the power pyramid must be democratically elected to avoid feudal centralization and democratic supervision. We should not only prevent corrupt officials from engaging in corruption, but also prevent honest officials from engaging in face-saving projects to improve their self-awareness, and develop more voluntary elected officials (such as former California Governor Schwarzenegger) to realize the flat management model of China government.