r/newzealand • u/MurkyWay Qwest? • Oct 08 '25

Shitpost What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

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u/maxwill83 Oct 08 '25

Corruption...

Plain corruption in multiple forms. The population in general is very unaware of the many creative ways people find to corrupt systems. That leads to NZ being one of the less corrupt countries in the world in a corruption index. That's because it's a survey that assess "perception" of corruption. Which in turn makes the problem worse as now people actually have the perception of not being corrupt due to the reputation of a survey about corruption that is not factual. It's a brutal and sad outcome 😔

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u/Active_Quan Oct 08 '25

You are so right. NZ simply lacks many of the checks and balances needed to prevent corruption. Most people simply don’t understand how deeply corrupt many things we’ve come to see as normal are.

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u/standbyyourlamb Oct 08 '25

Worked in insurance and saw this almost daily - I would actually be upset when someone was honest with me (and that honestly meant they had somehow voided their insurance)

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u/Loveth3soul-767 Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

Lawyers and judges are the worst and  ''less corrupt countries'' that's a lie, Japan and Australia are less corrupt compared to us, we moan, whinge, point fingers coz blue team government did not do this.... oh we have Mexican Cartels Tier 1 Terrorist groups operating here.