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I really don't understand why this is the hill everyone wants to die on about Congress. We want smart people in politics yet with the current zeitgeist I'd neve
by 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
I really don't understand why this is the hill everyone wants to die on about Congress. We want smart people in politics yet with the current zeitgeist I'd never in a million years recommend politics for a young person. And that's why we get only extremists and crazy folks running for office.
- encryptluks2 5y agoThese people are incredibly smart, but also incredibly selfish. Smart != morality.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y agoDidn't know that owning stock makes you selfish but k.
- dls2016 5y agoI believe it's more the rampant insider trading that illustrates their selfishness.
- barbazoo 5y agoTrading with non public information
- aviancrane 5y agoI think that's a bit of a strawman. If everything has a price, the potential to receive that price without much risk encourages your selfishness. Owning stock while being able to make policies that can immediately affect that stock incentivizes selfishness. Politicians are not suppose to be in the game of maximizing their personal profits.
- pixelatedindex 5y agoOwning stock is not, but buying stock based on private information is insider trading. Engaging in insider trading is most definitely selfish, and technically illegal.