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How about book deals and overpriced speaking tours after they leave office? There are so many ways potential bribery is legal. It seems so few good people wan
by mythrwy 3y ago
How about book deals and overpriced speaking tours after they leave office?
There are so many ways potential bribery is legal.
It seems so few good people want to be politicians. I wouldn't want to do it at all for instance (and not claiming the following necessarily applies to me either), but we need objective, rational, honest, intelligent, visionary, compassionate people to make decisions.
Instead (it seems to me) we get foolish influence peddlers for the most part. Maybe they don't start off like that but it seems to be where the road often leads. Perhaps this is just part of the human condition, but I sure hope for better.
- jen20 3y agoTo a point, this mirrors "leetcode" in technology: those who can pass the "interview" of an election campaign are almost universally poorly suited to the job.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoObama left office and days later spoke on Wall Street for $400k. That's a days "work", more than his yearly POTUS salary. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39710529 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39710529