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> a lot of time and money is spent I guess on reflection my parent description is not quite right, but your comment brings up maybe the real distinction: if yo
by throwawaymaths 4y ago
> a lot of time and money is spent
I guess on reflection my parent description is not quite right, but your comment brings up maybe the real distinction: if you were a true oligarch, you wouldn't have do that, you would just have government influence, or, at least have it 'quite easily' for some definition of easily.
- UtopiaPunk 4y agoSpending lots of money counts as easy if you're ridiculously wealthy
- throwawaymaths 4y agoIt's not actually easy though. If someone airdropped you 100M and told you to spend it on some policy initiative, you, UtopiaPunk, would probably not be able to figure out how to move that money to a successful political end in DC.
- emodendroket 4y agoHe also probably doesn't employ a bunch of people specifically for this purpose so it seems like an irrelevant scenario
- emodendroket 4y agoIf Jamie Dimon gives the President (or one of his aides or some other well-placed official) a call, is he going to be completely unable to find an audience who will at least hear what he has to say? Probably not. It would completely disingenuous to say that there's no difference between the US and Russia but I think there's more in common than we'd like to admit.