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What so they have more money to invest? "I have enough money already I don't need more" said basically no one ever.
by chucksta 1y ago
What so they have more money to invest? "I have enough money already I don't need more" said basically no one ever.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHa ha, I said that. It's why I retired when I did. (I know, not exactly what you meant though.)
- ben_w 1y agoCarrots and sticks. Now don't get me wrong, given how often legislation in the USA and the UK seems to get rubber-stamped by members of the legislative body who did not (and in some cases could not have) actually read it, I think there's something structurally wrong with at least these two governments, where the senators and MPs are more like overpaid customer support agents and less like the legal/constitutional equivalent of software engineers doing code review or maintaining system architecture, but conditional on if we actually want the elected representatives to be the people's preferred choices amongst the best legal minds available, we have to pay enough to encourage… actually, even before that, even just to get the attention of the top m=contested_seats candidates whose views allow them to comfortably be members of each of the n=num_parties. Now, I don't know what that pay rate is, and ChatGPT's guess would be better than mine, so the best I can do is link to a page that I only found because ChatGPT gave me a searchable phrase, "magic circle law firm": https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/school-leaver-law-careers/becoming-a-lawyer/how-much-does-a-partner-at-a-magic-circle-law-firm-earn https://www.allaboutlaw.co.uk/school-leaver-law-careers/beco... That suggests >>£1M/year in the UK. I assume the USA is more. Consider: would you take a 90% pay-cut to do your current day job but for the public good?
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