Ethical Crumb 33: The corrupt bureaucrat

Ethical Crumb 33: The corrupt bureaucrat did a lot of good because he didn’t charge much and took everyone’s money.

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Ethical Crumb #33 walks into the room dressed in absurdity but doesn’t stumble—it glides. A bribe, a bureaucrat, and a one-dollar breathing permit: this is satire, yes, but it’s the kind that tightens your chest while making you chuckle.

This Crumb plays the long game of ethics—it subverts a classic villain, the corrupt official, and refashions him as an accidental egalitarian. He steals, yes, but fairly. A villain with a volume discount. The horror is in the joke. The fairness is in the unfairness. The ethic, buried in irony, is this: sometimes, the system’s design matters more than the morality of its cogs.

Also, it’s hilarious. Bada boom.