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    10 months ago

    Personal upside maximization for professional sellers of ideas (aka politicians) is in using the power they attain through selling ideas to do favours for people who can pay them back the most.

    Guess who can, in a money-centric society, be the most generous to friendly politicians… I’ll give you a hint: it’s not the poor, the working class or even the middle class.