Greeks do you guys feel like there is a culture in Greece easily lets people work in areas that require strong competence?

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Examples of this could be saving lives like doctors, nurses, firefighters, or in transport like pilots and train operators? In the past month I've seen two major cases in Greece, one of which is a recent tragedy where a lot of people died at the hands of unsafe management of the railway system and it killed 57 people, and today I just watched a video on YouTube from my recommended list about this Helios flight in 2005 which killed 121 people because the both the testing team and the co-pilots forgot to the set the cabin pressurizer back to auto after the running the test. Do you feel like there needs to be more work & discussion in Greece on work regulations to ensure that people who work in these sensitive areas of society are held to high standards? I mean no offence to you guys when I ask this question, I love your country, I was in Corfu with my family back in 2019 and I loved it! I'm just asking this question because I think the Balkans altogether seems to have problems with regulating serious matters like an unrelated issue such as the environment. In Serbia there are various of locations where the water has been poisoned by fracking, there are big problems with air cleanliness and I believe not long ago there was this TV discussion where this man spoke against a far right guy called Sešelj who seemed to be for mining lithium in Serbia regardless of the potential for contaminating the water. In other words I'm not singling you guys out!

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Lvl100Centrist@reddit

Sort of? But having lived and worked across Europe I can tell you that this is not an exclusively Balkan problem. Scandinavia isn't particularly knows for its culture of competence. Remember the Karolinska doctor [who implanted fucking straws in people](https://forbetterscience.com/2016/02/21/macchiarini-and-karolinska-the-biomedical-ethics-meltdown/) and killed 7 before he was stopped? Ultimately it boils down to resources. Western europeans pour incredible amounts of money into projects, like Germany and trains, so accidents are rare. But even they manage to fuck up like with the [Brandeburg airport](https://www.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-story-of-failure-and-embarrassment/a-55446329) which was a literal *world-class record* of incompetence and failure. Thankfully nobody died. The Helios flight was a disaster caused by bad pilot etiquette but incompetence in airlines is not unique in Greece. Did the Germans not know about [the suicidal pilot who deliberately crashed his airplane and killed 150 people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525)? They did. Did the americans not know about a hijacked planes heading towards NYC and still refuse to stop them? They have the most well-funded and technically advanced airforce in the world, yet they scrambled a few unarmed F-16s and sent them to the wrong place lol. So I don't really think its holding people up to standard. Regarding the train accident, who is supposed to install and operate and maintain the automated collision detection system? It's not something you can do off watching youtube clips. It requires specialised personel and a lot of money. Yet there is no funding for anything. People barely have radios.

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Greeks do you guys feel like there is a culture in Greece easily lets people work in areas that require strong competence?

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