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by potatototoo99 1329 days ago
When it becomes common it stops being embarassing.
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That would mean a society with rampant corruption. Sweden is quite far from that [0]. Given how fast people get sacked (leave their job to pursue a long time hobby) when being publicly caught and shamed, it is still very embarrassing.

We just had a community where the newly elected politicians raised their salaries quite substantially, this while unions and employee organizations try to talk about keeping the pay raise low, not trying to compensate for the current (hopefully temporary) high inflation. It took basically a day before the suggested raise was pulled back and at least one politician dropped out.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corruption-index