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You're dealing with billionaire money vs millionaire money, the difference in scale is huge and the billionaire basically can put in as much as he wants. Beside
by kelipso 3y ago
You're dealing with billionaire money vs millionaire money, the difference in scale is huge and the billionaire basically can put in as much as he wants. Besides that it's not like there's a limit to human greed, plus there's numerous other social benefits to just spending time with billionaires, etc etc. Cracking down in it like the government does with typical government employees and contractors is the correct way.
- Ancapistani 3y ago> You're dealing with billionaire money vs millionaire money I don't think that's true at all. The base salary for a Justice is ~$270k as of 2021.
- kelipso 3y agoThe guy is pretty old, I'm sure he has at least a million dollars worth of wealth, probably just from his house he has a million dollars.
- Ancapistani 3y agoTrue, but net worth is far from the same thing as income. That $1m house costs him money to keep up. FWIW, I don’t think $750k would be too much for a Justice’s salary. It wouldn’t hurt, and would likely pay for itself just through the reduced motivation for corruption. We shouldn’t have top-level public servants that are struggling financially. We shouldn’t make them ultra wealthy, but paying them enough to live comfortably even if they’re terrible with money and live paycheck to paycheck seems like a reasonable approach.