2/ even though SOME corruption is inevitable, we can channel and limit it through social norms. To my mind, the kind of corruption that's tolerable is the kind where the quid pro quo is weak, and the access that's purchased is largely social in nature.
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3/ e.g. Expedia putting Chelsea Clinton on its board of directors, and paying her $315,000 per year https://www.expediagroup.com/brands/chelsea-clinton/ …https://www1.salary.com/EXPEDIA-GROUP-INC-Executive-Salaries.html …
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4/ I will probably never in my life earn $315,000 per year. And if I do, it will not be for a "job" that takes me ~2 days per year, and it will not be in conjunction with a dozen other such jobs, allowing me to earn >> $2-5M/yr. Chelsea is being handed this free money >
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5/ as a form of soft / tolerable corruption. The idea is that the CEO and execs and other board members of Expedia get to hobnob with Bill and that circle. They will get invited to parties. They can very easily talk to a senator and spend 30 min talking about how hotels >
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6/ are important to the economy. There's a soft set of connections, but there is not a hard quid pro quo. This is inevitable, and we need to, at some level, accept that it will happen ...but we can still get outraged when the quid pro quo is too formalized, when payoffs are >
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7/ in cash, when the cash goes directly to the politician, when influence that is purchased is used grotesquely and obviously (as when Joe Biden, on video, bragged that he had forced the Ukranian government to sack a prosecutor who was going after Hunter's patron for corruption)
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8/ If RETIRED Bill Clinton can put the CEO of Expedia in touch with the right social crowd, and that's worth $350k/yr payoff to Chelsea...ugh, it's grotesque, but we've got to eat it. If Hunter Biden is selling access to the next POTUS to CCP-connected Chinese CEOs >>>
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9/ and Hunter is kicking half of that up to the POTUS himself ... holy cow, that's orders of magnitude worse. ....and that concludes my TED talk on the difference between tolerable and intolerable graft.
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So...this was a big part of life ages ago. I was glad to not own a car at the time. Starting it would have been a daily roll of the dice. Regardless, I knew forever after that it is ALL a lie.https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-crow-qadhafi-connection-6404734 …
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