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What do you call giving government officials lots of money to take anticompetitive actions that personally benefit you that they would otherwise never do and al
by 93po 3y ago
What do you call giving government officials lots of money to take anticompetitive actions that personally benefit you that they would otherwise never do and also have a clear conflict of interest with the purpose of their elected position?
- mulmen 3y agoI call it representative democracy.
- autoexec 3y agorepresenting only those with the most money at the expense of literally everyone else
- mulmen 3y agoThis just isn't true. It's a weird fantasy of helplessness which breeds inaction. Our system is imperfect sure but not broken. This level of apathy is a choice and promoting it is harmful.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> giving government officials lots of money to take anticompetitive actions that personally benefit you Give a specific case. Because almost all of them, with Boeing, involve on one hand a $5k donation, and on the other hand, a factory in the district. Guess which one gets you an urgent meeting with the Congressman. Tech, in particular, has this cartoonish totem of how politics works. This usually ends hilariously. But in this case, it’s being used to justify inaction, which is conveniently self fulfilling.