However during the last years Ukraine is getting rid of corruption at an escape velocity and hopefully at that speed we will be able to be done with it within ten years or so.
I like your optimism... I am writing from a country which joined EU few decades ago and hoped to rid the corruption as well. Now here we are: I have applied for permission to connect a house to a water line in a small town - that was in early June: and it still drags on. Despite all fancy online application and project tracking tools the government has built, the number of involved institutions is insane. And its a bloody water pipe some 50m long at most... Cannot imagine something larger...
Ukraine was really on a roll pre-war, regarding corruption, at least low-level.
I had a friend who worked at Kyiv since 2014, first as a nightclub owner, then as a security contractor salesman/manager, and he told me that low-level corruption there was divided by two overnight (during Covid).
I don't know what happened, but i guess it is easier to pass harsher or society-changing laws during a pandemic.
I guess he meant the shift from government office offline visits to full digitalization. At the moment a lot of common operations and documents (e.g. register the company) in Ukraine can be done exclusively using the Internet, and if you try to visit a government office they will send you back to fill the forms via the website.
This could happen in Marin county too. Can't build a house next to these other houses because there is no water or sewer hookup, and catch22, can't hook up water and sewer because some nesting owls in the area, which are apparently wholly unaffected by all the existing development but would surely be wiped out should you build another 40'x40' building in the area.
I'm pretty sure corruption in societies is a cultural thing. It'll take at least a generation, maybe more, to truly go away. Ten years is wildly optimistic.
However during the last years Ukraine is getting rid of corruption at an escape velocity and hopefully at that speed we will be able to be done with it within ten years or so.