fworld·World Newsbyfne8w2ah Convicted ministry official says Finland is "corrupt country" — experts warn of old boy networkshttps://yle.fi/a/74-20122465Open linkView original on lemmy.world76Comments7
funkajunk replylemm.ee4Hide 4 repliesDon'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.13
hungryphrog replylemmy.blahaj.zone1Hide 1 replyDidn't Plato say something about the people who want power being the ones you shouldn't let have power?4
FF04118F replyfeddit.nlI think Plato said philosophers like him should have power. Philosopher-Kings. More of a Lenin vibe3
DDownToClown lemmy.worldMinister 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.23
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
Heh, suckers
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 🇫🇮
So Finland is Stolland after all?