IMO, The US has crumbling infrastructure, corrupt government, dangerous cities, and a lot of homelessness, among so many other problems. Hell, millions of people in the US don’t even have power right now.

What’s the difference?

  • @otp
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    51 month ago

    You’re right, they’ve ordered it that way, but they’ve specified that their scale is…

    [scored] on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)

    So you weren’t wrong about what you read.

    But without that context there, being “in the top ten of a corruption ranking” would usually mean the country is very corrupt, haha

      • @otp
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        21 month ago

        Yes, the scale they used was just a bit counter-intuitive.

        It wasn’t a rank from most to least corrupt, it was more of a “corruption score”, where higher numbers means more corrupt. But they ordered it like ranks, so #1 (least corrupt) would be first.