Couldn't you write the same thing about every government worker with a [retirement plan that contains stocks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift_Savings_Pl

Couldn't you write the same thing about every government worker with a [retirement plan that contains stocks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift_Savings_Plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrift_Savings_Plan)? - that the actions they took led to personal financial gain? Note that the same was also true for every member of the Obama administration in the bailouts of 2008-2010. We should care about when government action directly picking individual winners and losers in the economy leads directly to financial benefit for government individuals who made those choices - whereas this seems more analogous to complaining that government action improving the air quality in a city helped a government official's asthmatic child breathe better - why is it a problem unless the benefits are specific to his child while the costs are borne by the broader population? That certainly doesn't seem to be the case here.