abaya

Well, yeah, that's the thing. But I think the OP is talking about doing things/favors for people that have nothing to do with productive labor or trading money for skills... but things that are somehow illegal or looked down upon, I guess. Something corrupt, I would assume?

An interesting flip-side to the question would be: Would you be willing to pay someone off in order to get what you wanted?... and again, not in the productive/labor exchange sense, but for something corrupt... For myself, I think the answer would again only be Yes if it would save someone's life or quality of life, that I cared about, especially in a developing country where corruption is a given thing. But I guess we're only talking about stuff in developed, Western countries, right?

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