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It's not gonna change significantly, it never does. I'll eat my words if it does but I don't think it will, I don't know of an example where an Eastern European country got rid of local corruption and things were much better for the working class, it just doesn't happen that way. I think if you believe all this corruption money is suddenly going to make its way to healthcare and infrastructure you're being a bit naive.
Maybe you're right. Maybe you're not. The ideas that corruption doesn't matter and nothing ever changes are unconvincing to me in the face of A) the immense scale of Orbán's corruption and B) the fact that he actually lost, and accepted the outcome (something very few had predicted).
But I fear we're going in circles. I'll go with cautious optimism for now, and save the cynicism for later.