Corruption Index
I have had several problems with people with Indian (not native American) names. False claims of non-delivery even though I have delivery confirmation, always asking for gift status for ebay items so duty does not have to be paid and a gal from New Jersey that waited six weeks to claim the book was damaged in shipping and said it would take a month for her to return it (probably a vendor to people in India). I was curious about the honesty of the people we have at the other end of the phone every time we call a corporation or order something with our credit card. I googled corruption and got this index of countries ranked from least corrupted to most corrupted. India was 83rd. USA is not even in the top ten. What I find interesting is that the most honest countries seem to be also the most socialistic.
posted by Flimsy Sanity @ 5:28 AM
6 Comments:
At 7:11 AM,
Omnipotent Poobah said…
Those are interesting stats. There is possibly another way to view them too.
The Top 19 nations are relatively wealthy ones. Starting with 20 (Chile) the nations - with a few exceptions - progressively get poorer and poorer.
Maybe the people in the richer nations don't steal because there's less incentive than in the countries that are very poor.
This looks like a case for a case for some bright sociology doctoral candidate to look into.
Good post.
At 10:38 AM,
Peacechick Mary said…
Site doesn't seem to want to load - probably some corrupt person got in there. Ebay! I have a guy from Hong Kong saying I owe him for something or other (a giraffe photo holder) and I have never ever even seen the thing. I don't ever use Ebay anymore - it's just too crazy.
At 8:00 AM,
Flimsy Sanity said…
O'poobah: Kind of a case of which came first. Are the people poor because of corrupt governments or are the governments corrupt because the people are poor. In my personal dealings, I find the rich much more dishonest than the poor people I run into.
At 8:52 AM,
Flimsy Sanity said…
PS. Of course the poor people I meet are just working hard to make ends meet - not scrapping to exist.
At 9:36 AM,
Flimsy Sanity said…
P Mary: The Phishing that goes on in the river eBay is relentless.
At 11:24 AM,
Anonymous said…
It's sad that great ideas can succumb to the criminal element with such apparent ease. I used to buy and sell a lot on Ebay, but then began to receive so much bogus correspondence I've now given them up as a bad job. It's not so much phishing, as trawling! Reporting them to Ebay was a total waste of time.
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