>If someone offered me 1 million dollars just to tell me about their religion or politics or something But why would they do that without the implicit expectat

>If someone offered me 1 million dollars just to tell me about their religion or politics or something But why would they do that without the implicit expectation of quid pro quo? Or more to the point, the past experience of quid pro quo, as it's obviously a one-of instance. You're attributing irrational behavior to billion-dollar CEOs. If Lyft regularly paid the chief software engineer for Uber a million dollars for having lunch with their CEO, the commenters here wouldn't be doing this wishy-washy "it's just a completely ethical lunch" crap.