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Among the ambitious and entrepreneurial, this sort of behavior is nothing new. In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin relates how he found himself as a govern
by mac01021 8y ago
Among the ambitious and entrepreneurial, this sort of behavior is nothing new.
In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin relates how he found himself as a government official for the colony of Pennsylvania and then proceeded to hire his own printing shop whenever his office needed to publish a widely circulated document or pamphlet.
BTW, that autobiography is a great read. you can find it for free on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm
- gm3dmo 8y agoIf he lived in 2019 he would have just dropped it on an S3 bucket. What with your government being all like shut down and all.
- nsajko 8y agoI think the perception has changed a great deal since then. Note that the USA government hired on a spoils-based system until 1883: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system It would be brilliant to see an analysis of how commonplace this and other types of corruption were historically and geographically.