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I'm sure lots of companies would volunteer to pay someone who will then take care to make the government regulators tasked with overseeing them "more efficient"
by rob74 2y ago
I'm sure lots of companies would volunteer to pay someone who will then take care to make the government regulators tasked with overseeing them "more efficient" (i.e. less capable to do their job). You might say something like that would be illegal, but Musk himself is doing it, so why shouldn't others be able to?
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, you’d really have to bet on your proposed form of corruption remaining unprosecuted _forever_ for that to make sense. Like, that’d be just a straight-up bribe, surely? I suppose if you’re betting that Trump causes the US to permanently convert into a Russia-style semi-failed state, then maybe it makes sense. But there’s definitely a world where, in two to four years (or sooner; Trump is not big on loyalty, and if this turns into enough of a public-annoying mess he’ll turn on it in a second), someone is tasked to clean up the mess, and at that point you don’t want to be a company who’s blatantly paying for policy.