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Of course! But they're not technically illegal. So you can charge hundreds of thousands of dollars plus expenses for a one hour talk. They make more per perfor
by sbaiddn 4y ago
Of course! But they're not technically illegal. So you can charge hundreds of thousands of dollars plus expenses for a one hour talk.
They make more per performance than most of the biggest music stars. Consider that the "Friends" stars, at their height, only made $1 million/episode which took far more than ten hours to make and was broadcast and loved by hundreds of millions (if not billions?) around the world.
Obviously it's a graft. But! How do you make this illegal within our constitutional framework? A cure must but be worse than the disease.
- varispeed 4y agoJust like charging $10k for a bottle of champagne is not illegal, but it means you don't have to open as many car washes to put the cash through. Just have the dealers book the table and pay cash for the champs. Then just pay tax and money is squeaky clean. Similar story with the speech circuit. Politicians do favours and then once they are out of office they go on a tour to collect payments. Everyone knows what it is, but there is no interest in making this a criminal offence, because every single politician in office wants to cash in once they are out.
- sbaiddn 4y ago"A cure must but be worse than the disease." I meant: "A cure CANNOT be worse than the disease." - autocorrect fail