The US is pretty good for a bunch of stuff. I'm hoping to one day also be a rent extractor. Like, all I have to be is a local organization somewhere and I can p

The US is pretty good for a bunch of stuff. I'm hoping to one day also be a rent extractor. Like, all I have to be is a local organization somewhere and I can pull out some fictional required environmental review studies (waivable if you use our existing studies for $1.5 m) or required local community input (also waivable if you've used our org for outreach) or required hiring from my labour union. The US Gov supplies from a large pool of money. You just need a tiny fraction of that and you can parasitize to great personal wealth. Lots of sucker W-2 employees working while you can be a millionaire off other people's wealth. A startup that industrializes this process could do it to every project in the US and easily become a few billion. The hard part is concealing the relationship between the diverse entities, and watching out for the existing guys pulling this scam.