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Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that."

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-ins...

Measuring corruption versus measuring perception of corruption. The former requires evidence of corruption.



https://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-retur...

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.


"The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corrruption."

100%.

Cheers for the references.




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