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Re:Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback? by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:11PM (#42805803)
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.

Re:Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback? by leviliebvin on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:42PM (#42806078)
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.

Re:Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback? by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:11AM (#42810705)
"The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corrruption."

100%.

Cheers for the references.