hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
on 06 Nov 2024 08:04
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Finland is surprisingly corrupt (it’s just not the sort of corruption where you bribe cops) and Finns are generally stupid and gullible enough to think we’re not corrupt
Don’t worry, any positions that offer some degree of power (such as those in government) all seem to attract the same kind of asshole people. Doesn’t matter where in the world it is, they are all mostly corrupt.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 06 Nov 2024 12:32
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Didn’t Plato say something about the people who want power being the ones you shouldn’t let have power?
I think Plato said philosophers like him should have power. Philosopher-Kings.
More of a Lenin vibe
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
on 09 Nov 2024 16:37
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Absolutely, but at least in many countries people understand that – here people love to pretend that there is no corruption here at all and that we’re good, honest folk all of us.
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Finland is surprisingly corrupt (it’s just not the sort of corruption where you bribe cops) and Finns are generally stupid and gullible enough to think we’re not corrupt
Don’t worry, any positions that offer some degree of power (such as those in government) all seem to attract the same kind of asshole people. Doesn’t matter where in the world it is, they are all mostly corrupt.
Didn’t Plato say something about the people who want power being the ones you shouldn’t let have power?
I think Plato said philosophers like him should have power. Philosopher-Kings.
More of a Lenin vibe
Absolutely, but at least in many countries people understand that – here people love to pretend that there is no corruption here at all and that we’re good, honest folk all of us.
Heh, suckers
So Finland is Stolland after all?
Minister convicted of corruption says that pretty much every other politician is corrupt after he got caught.
Yes corruption exists in Finland especially on higher levels but this “everyone else is doing it” is just the oldest defence there is.
Torille 🇫🇮