• crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Don’t know what you’ve got against this index, but it’s telling the truth here. Britain is becoming more and more corrupt.
      Or do you think the UK hasn’t been sliding into corruption the past 10 years? I’m having trouble defining the point of your comment.

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            10 months ago

            It kinda does when you think about it… You have a larger social clique to interact with. You’ll get invited to parties more often and you can say yes to gifts. You might even get to visit whatever replaced Epstein’s island. It’s all benefits huh?
            The only downside is that you might one day end up in a cell somewhere, with your ‘friends’ helping you suicide.
            Not a bad tradeoff really…

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              10 months ago

              Good for the corrupt people, sure, not good for the rest of us. Did that really need pointing out?

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      10 months ago

      The idea of corruption is quiet complex. There are even economists that argue, that slight corruption leads to a more efficient economy, due to minimizing beaucracy.

      Nevertheless, corruption can lead to people loosing faith into their government and therefore its inability to fulfill its role in society.

      Therefore, this index measures ‘perceived corruption’ and not ‘level of corruption’, being closer to an index measuring the trust in the state. If you are interested in a more in depth explanation, I would suggest watching economics explained video to this topic: https://youtu.be/s4C1xiyGaGs?si=rTkOZAWbGKXzjLok

      But a single ‘this index is bullshit meaningless’ is not paying justice to the complexity of this topic.