I think he's referring to a particular type of Post Soviet "You loot and you rob or you're bought" money people who looked at an entire society being stolen for cash and the people left to starve and rot.
And then they went "If I want to live I need to steal better than these guys."
i understand your clarification, but i still content that enrichment by defrauding is not unique to the post soviets, and even in this framing they "learned it" from what the west did to them, insert foucault quote here
I think he's referring to a particular type of Post Soviet "You loot and you rob or you're bought" money people who looked at an entire society being stolen for cash and the people left to starve and rot.
And then they went "If I want to live I need to steal better than these guys."
i understand your clarification, but i still content that enrichment by defrauding is not unique to the post soviets, and even in this framing they "learned it" from what the west did to them, insert foucault quote here