Convicted ministry official says Finland is "corrupt country" — experts warn of old boy networks

https://yle.fi/a/74-20122465

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hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 1y (5 replies)

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funkajunk@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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 · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Didn't Plato say something about the people who want power being the ones you shouldn't let have power?

F04118F@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y

I think Plato said philosophers like him should have power. Philosopher-Kings.

More of a Lenin vibe

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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funkajunk@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Heh, suckers

DownToClown@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y

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.

ouch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Torille 🇫🇮

ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc · 2 pts · 1y

So Finland is Stolland after all?