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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I think one of the issues with taking bribes is that even corrupt people don’t want to completely ruin the economy because you don’t want the people trying to bribe you lack the money to do so. Or in other words, even apart from any moral issues you don’t want to kill your golden goose.

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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They can ruin the economy all they want. The people who are bribing them aren’t going to run out of money.

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- taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe not the top 5 out of those people but the rest certainly will.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They won’t. Not even the top 100. Politicians are relatively cheap to buy.
    
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  - JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What does it matter, the rest didn’t bribe them anyway…
    
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Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
you underestimate how shortsighted republicans are

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billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Counterpoint: the fact that the moral of “don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs” even exists is proof that people are indeed greedy and/or stupid enough to do that very thing.

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