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Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that." https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-insights-corruption-injustice https://ww
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that."
https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-insights-corruption-injustice https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-ins...
Measuring corruption versus measuring perception of corruption. The former requires evidence of corruption.
- leviliebvin 2y agohttps://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-returns-to-haunt-germany-olaf-scholz-hsh-nordbank/ https://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-retur... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corruption. In some cultures, if a public servant buys a coffee using the company card, that's a scandal, and some of those cultures have a reputation for being corrupt. In Germany, everyone downplays corruption for some reason. But I see it everywhere, especially in everything that had to do with public funds. But it's never called corruption, so corruption does not exist because it is never acknowledged.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago"The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corrruption." 100%. Cheers for the references.