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With arguments like yours, you could prove that HeroesWorld is mired in cheating, moderator abuse, and outright rudeness. All it takes is a couple of episodes and voila — a trend.

That's why you shouldn't look at individual episodes, but at the overall statistics. And compare them with previous years to identify the dynamics of the process.

LOL))) The fact that the order of bribe payments is being streamlined is, of course, progress)))

The fact that this surprises you shows the extent of your understanding of life. Developed states differ from undeveloped ones precisely in that in the former, corruption is orderly and civilized, forming part of the state system, while in the latter it is disorderly and wild, competing with the state system (example: Russia in the 90s).

And do you know who initially streamlines these bribes from the very top? Mr. Putin, one of the richest people on earth, the main Russian corrupt official. He skimmed at least $30 billion just from the Olympics for himself. And that's all money from the budget, our taxes. So what progress can there be in a country where the president is the biggest financial criminal?

Explain this to me — what does Putin need money for? Simply — why?

You're just trying to model his behavior based on the psychology of a petty bourgeois, for whom money provides both opportunities and status. But for the head of state, opportunities and status are not determined by money at all.

This is a simple matter of scale of psychology — some grandmother has a modest pension, so the price of milk in the store matters to her; she tries to buy whatever is cheaper, or wherever it's cheaper. While I, for example, don't even look at the milk price tag — I just grab it and head to the register.

But when buying a car, the price matters to me, because there might not be enough money for what I want. So I compare and choose based on both price and price/quality ratio.

For a big businessman, the next level — the price of a car doesn't really matter; he'll buy whatever he wants. But when buying a steel mill or an IT company, there's already negotiation and maneuvering.

For the president, all these factories, newspapers, steamships are nothing more than chips in a game; the objects of interest are large territories, states, millions of people — the struggle is for them. How much money or how many cars he has is irrelevant.