It's incredibly simple, but it's also true Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome - Charlie Munger It's the same with politics and money. We do

It's incredibly simple, but it's also true Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome - Charlie Munger It's the same with politics and money. We don't get the leaders we want, because it costs money to buy people's attention. We get the people who have some way to pay for attention (in recent years, one of those ways is increasingly corruption - e.g. senator of NJ, mayor of NY, etc.) An article today talks about Cuomo following the "local TV buys" playbook, which WAS a fairly reliable way to win elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/ezra-klein-show-chris-hayes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opinion/ezra-klein-show-c... That didn't work this time, but the mechanism is simple and clear