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
    814·
    3 months ago

    The US usually ranks 25-50 on world corruption indices. Third world countries rank 100-200.

    That would mean that the US is more corrupt. I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant, so I’m just adding this to help.

    I don’t know if it’s a language thing or a regional thing (or just a regular mistake), but “rank” usually means that 1 is the most, 2 is the second most, and 100th would be less corrupt than 1, 2, etc.

      • otp
        72·
        3 months 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
            20·
            3 months 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.