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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jordan Lewis

      1/ I agree with this. And it's inevitable - the principal / agent problem can't be worked around. Plunkitt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Plunkitt … ) talked about "honest graft" vs "dishonest graft". I disagree with his stance on the issue, but it does get to the point that >>>https://twitter.com/jordanthelawyer/status/1317485536890806274 …

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      FWIW, Dubya admitted in a 60 Minutes interview that he knew that people who seemed interested in (and willing to pay) HIM just wanted access to his father. He went on later than year to win the GOP nom and the presidency. A certain amount of soft corruption is priced in.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

      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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        1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 17 Oct 2020

          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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