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I don't know why you'd be happy having the investigation cost orders of magnitude more, in a functioning democracy that's just straight up more money on your ta

• vmception 5y ago
  Tax bill? The goal would be to have lawyers for that too But more pragmatically, the agencies themselves just use their budget allocation on lower hanging fruit
  • Traster 5y ago
    Yeah that's exactly the point I was making "I can spend my way out of this democratically passed law" is not really democracy is it. It's capitalism at the cost of democracy.
  • unclenoriega 5y ago
    "Ideally, I can have enough money and power to benefit from society without contributing to its upkeep or being bound by its rules."
    • vmception 5y ago
      my thoughts on it are a bit deeper than that, but the simpler summary of those thoughts (which I haven't detailed) are that the inspiration didn't come from nowhere. there are enough examples where thats the case.