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> Anyone who has spent a fair bit of time travelling and living in other countries knows that this[0] index is essentially correct. Coincidentally, I’ve travel
by yunohn 5y ago
> Anyone who has spent a fair bit of time travelling and living in other countries knows that this[0] index is essentially correct.
Coincidentally, I’ve travelled a lot and lived in the USA, EU, and Asia. But I actually disagree.
Most Western citizens believe that there’s no corruption in their countries, while the reality is that it’s just less visible. In most developing countries, even the lowest levels of government get an opportunity to take a cut, but in developed countries, this is reserved for the upper levels. The amounts of money involved are still quite massive - and as most SV residents note on this site often, everything is riddled with inefficiency and favoritism with lots of corruption.
- crazydoggers 5y ago> Most Western citizens believe that there’s no corruption in their countries, while the reality is that it’s just less visible. That’s just completely untrue. I don’t know what people you talk to, but here in the US I can guarantee 90% of Thanksgiving dinner conversation is going to revolve around someone complaining about the corrupt politicians.
- jeltz 5y agoNot even Swedes believe our country has no corruption. For example Nya Karolinska was a recent huge corruption scandal which people still talk about.
- 3pt14159 5y agoIf you're speaking about the USA then I'm not really sure we disagree as much as you think. I'm from Canada and have observed that Americans suffer from more political corruption than Canadians. I didn't say there was no corruption, I just said that it correlated with the map. Did Donald Trump leave office with a helicopter full of money? No. Did he grift as much as he could along side plenty of other grifters from politicians to lobbyists, absolutely. But in percent of GDP terms, the USA is still leagues ahead of places like Afghanistan or most countries of Central Africa. Even Vietnam and Ukraine had much higher corruption than the USA, in my experience, and I'm friends with some interesting people like military contractors and business owners, accountants for Gazprom, etc.