From a "trader" perspective, the best policy if you are bribing is bribing any current AND future candidates, discounted by some factor for probability of being

From a "trader" perspective, the best policy if you are bribing is bribing any current AND future candidates, discounted by some factor for probability of being in power at some point in the future, and discounted by the time value of money (so people currently in power gets more.) That's probably the type of amoral, risk reward based thinking that goes through someone like SBF's head. Source: was a quant at some hedge fund in a past life.