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My definition doesn’t require a commercial interest. It’s just amazing to me in an age where politicians are typically benefitting their or their crony’s commer
by CodeWriter23 9y ago
My definition doesn’t require a commercial interest. It’s just amazing to me in an age where politicians are typically benefitting their or their crony’s commercial interests that a guy who is elected on a populist platform is accused of having an ulterior motive for defending the interests of the people as he promised, because that might cause his constituents to elect him to a different office and serve them further.
- tacomonstrous 9y agoAmong other things, this seems to carry the implicit premise that prosecuting Google for antitrust violations is a populist issue. I would wager that if you polled it, you would find the exact opposite.
- CodeWriter23 9y agoPerhaps you might want to give this a read if you think Google’s power is of no concern: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/technology/frightful-five-start-ups.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/technology/frightful-five...
- tacomonstrous 9y agoThat's not what I said. The claim is that it's not a populist position, not that it's not the correct one.
- CobrastanJorji 9y ago> An ulterior motive would be...to benefit his own commercial interests. > My definition (of ulterior motive) doesn’t require a commercial interest.
- CodeWriter23 9y agoTo the grammatically hindered, my use of the ellipses (...) implies other possibilities than what is written.