Corruption

When systems can be bought, rules bent, and oversight avoided, the playing field tilts permanently toward those with wealth and connections.

Corruption destroys trust, wastes resources, and ensures policies serve the powerful rather than the common good.

Like watching a rigged game and being forced to play anyway. Like honesty is for suckers. Like the system is designed to fail you.

Stories from whistleblowers who lost everything, from communities poisoned by corporate impunity, from students crushed by predatory systems.