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> discourage anyone with financial sense from running for congress. What's wrong with that? "If you choose a life in government, you'll never be rich, but you
by komali2 11mo ago
> discourage anyone with financial sense from running for congress.
What's wrong with that? "If you choose a life in government, you'll never be rich, but you may be powerful" seems like a perfectly acceptable situation.
- ToValueFunfetti 11mo agoIt may be acceptable for them, but I'd prefer people who have financial sense in charge of the budget and people who are so power hungry as to forgo money kept as far from governance as possible
- greedo 11mo agoSo you're saying we currently have a Congress with financial sense?
- ToValueFunfetti 11mo agoOnly moreso than the counterfactual. The status quo only rewards those with financial sense who are willing to be a little corrupt, which undermines the effect. Really, we should just pay them 7 figures
- LtWorf 11mo agoPeople who want to enrich themselves rarely care about others. It's the opposite of people you want running a government.
- Workaccount2 11mo agoYou shouldn't be punished for being financially intelligent. You are conflating corruption with financial competence. We don't stop athletes who use the gym regularly from competing because all the guys using steroids also went to the gym a lot.
- ceejayoz 11mo ago> You shouldn't be punished for being financially intelligent. You are conflating corruption with financial competence. And you're conflating "being financially intelligent" with "being primarily motivated by profit and personal gain". A conman is often "financially intelligent", too, but what they're inclined to do with that intelligence matters.
- catigula 11mo agoYou aren't being punished, nobody is forcing you to run for Congress.
- mrguyorama 11mo agoAnd if you consider "I'm not as rich as I am physically capable of being" to be "punishment", you have absurd priorities and should not be in congress. There's so much more to life and the world than the number on your portfolio for christs sake.
- Workaccount2 11mo agoPeople have this mindset like they are the buddha or something, and then you show them a trick to save 25% on every amazon order, and they are all over like addict shown a pill stash. So dumb
- jkubicek 11mo agoEven the most disruptive proposals in these comments aren't banning representatives from being rich, it's just banning them from adding extreme amounts of additional wealth while in office.