Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism
by emodendroket on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:07AM
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If Jamie Dimon gives the President (or one of his aides or some other well-placed official) a call, is he going to be completely unable to find an audience who will at least hear what he has to say? Probably not.
It would completely disingenuous to say that there's no difference between the US and Russia but I think there's more in common than we'd like to admit.
Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism
by UtopiaPunk on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:41PM
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Spending lots of money counts as easy if you're ridiculously wealthy
Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism
by throwawaymaths on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:06PM
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It's not actually easy though. If someone airdropped you 100M and told you to spend it on some policy initiative, you, UtopiaPunk, would probably not be able to figure out how to move that money to a successful political end in DC.
Re:America Has Replaced Capitalism with Cronyism
by emodendroket on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:28PM
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He also probably doesn't employ a bunch of people specifically for this purpose so it seems like an irrelevant scenario
I guess on reflection my parent description is not quite right, but your comment brings up maybe the real distinction: if you were a true oligarch, you wouldn't have do that, you would just have government influence, or, at least have it 'quite easily' for some definition of easily.