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I don’t understand what’s in it for the people pushing for these approvals. Are they getting kickbacks?

• scrps 5y ago
  Jobs, google "Regulatory capture"
• voisin 5y ago
  There is intense pressure to please big corporate interests. I see it in my field often. I have no idea where it comes from. I think maybe fear of the power big corporates have? Fear that their higher ups won’t protect them?
  • ethbr0 5y ago
    At the highest level, the revolving door and cushy "retirement jobs" in industry. And once you have the bosses in your pocket, they exert pressure down the chain. Middle management isn't getting the real pressure, but their bosses are breathing fire down their necks, telling them expectations.
  • kbenson 5y ago
    I always assumed it was the dark corollary of trickle down economics, and one of the few places it works. You throw a bunch of money at a higher up, and the pressure flows downhill. Just like something else that flows downhill that we're all aware of. Eventually you end up with a system where there's a buffer of a few layers between the people benefitting and the people actually signing off on something, and after a while it's not explicit as much as "a feeling I got that my managers expected this to go through."
  • sumedh 5y ago
    > I have no idea where it comes from. One reason could be that company provides jobs so a politician can say he/she brought jobs to the area.