317
Lowest score so far...
Right? This only tracked through 2024. It's about to get much worse.
The last 3 weeks have already surpassed Russia, and every 3rd world "shithole" country.
it only covers data through 2024.
Start digging a hole.
During the Trump/Musk presidency? What are the odds!?
EDIT: I actually read the article, and it looks like the article report doesn't cover the current administration. This score will plummet...
Biden administration. Data hours though 2024.
This score will plummet...
South Sudan better watch out! We're coming for their spot!
In the last decade or so, when people called USA a 3rd world country, it was mostly tongue in cheek.
Not anymore.
Tbf, I was calling it 3rd world country with iPhones. Although I'm pretty sure the USA was one of the countries that invented the terms "1st/2nd/3rd world countries" as a way of dividing themselves from the brown poors
I thought smarphones were more common in poor countries do to the lack of other infrastructure.
Yup, leapfrogging tech is definitely a thing in poor countries. Telephone and internet lines not being built in favour of cell phone towers, few bank locations in favour of mobile banking, etc
"America Is the Only Country That Went from Barbarism to Decadence Without Civilization In Between"
and apparently goes the other way just as easily
I sometimes called us a second world country but yeah we going straight up bananas now.
This looks suspiciously like a map of whiteness.
Not really. Just look at eastern Europe and Russia.
Also it's corruption perception, which is used as a proxy because actual corruption is basically impossible to measure, but it also makes the whole thing culture-dependent. Namibia is a good example: They consider themselves more corrupt than South Africa which they definitely aren't, they just have a lower tolerance for shenanigans.
If you take a peek at world history there are certainly some reasons for that correlation, and it's not a pretty story.
Looks like it matches up pretty closely to the Happiness Report:
Drain the swamp! (Of all regulation standing in the way of Musk's capture)
Have no fear it will only get worse from here.
And that's saying something!
What? With Trump running the country like a mafia protection racket? How could that be?
So sorry to burst your bubble..... But this is 2024 data. When Biden was in office.
We're gonna be setting new records every week under this administration, not records to be proud of, but.. yeah.
Shit! So I guess we better do something about it?
Reminder: this is with the score artificially inflated by not counting the legal corruption that's already baked into the US political system on purpose.
Probably wouldn't break 50 otherwise, BEFORE Trump.
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