Re:Washington Officials Traded Stocks with Exquisite Timing
by 411111111111111 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:53PM
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> Who cares more about a payoff: someone who already has their gains and fewer years left, or the hungrier younger person?
How many people in their tweens to 40th have ever filled the roles they were talking about? That's the only timeframe this argument would make sense to me.
I really can't see their comment as bigoted as you claim. There really is a strong selection bias with people filling these roles at that age and them behaving like that. That's doesn't mean that people in that age braket are always corrupt, but people that have been in these roles for extended periods of time generally are corrupt.
Re:Washington Officials Traded Stocks with Exquisite Timing
by alanwreath on Friday October 21, 2022 @09:55AM
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So, maybe erase the age consideration of the argument and target the number of terms instead.
Re:Washington Officials Traded Stocks with Exquisite Timing
by jwarden on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:04PM
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Agree, in almost all times and cultures I have read about or experienced, respecting your elders is a big deal. It is only in the last decade where it seems that attitude has flipped in popular liberal culture.
Re:Washington Officials Traded Stocks with Exquisite Timing
by heavenlyblue on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:17AM
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Yeah especially with arranged marriages where your mum decides who you will marry.
You can as easily argue the opposite: older people can be more conscientious because they have less to gain and less to lose. Who cares more about a payoff: someone who already has their gains and fewer years left, or the hungrier younger person?
I suspect you have based your “fact” on sampling bias - we don’t get good visibility metrics on young corrupted politicians (not so many young politicians, not so much time for them to have been caught making egregious errors). Disclaimer: middle-aged engineer type.