It seems as if I live more in the “real world” than your fantasies about how the world of business actually operates:

https://theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-rev...

Oh, but of course, only if I set aside the “kool-aid” of citing the examples of the dominant startup players of the past decade.

Perhaps you should, again, grow beyond your ideological name-calling to a rational engagement with the world, which actually involves everything I’ve described.

I did a word search of the linked article you posted, and I didn't see a single incidence of the words 'bribe' or 'bribery' in it.

Or are you claiming that the word "lobby" in the phrase "attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne" actually meant 'bribe'?

And despite you frantically scouring Google for something to backup your 'bribery' claims with, the above article ended up being the only thing you could find.

So basically, you essentially spent your own time to prove my point. Thanks.

I'll repeat again what I told you earlier: grow up and stop gorging yourself on conspiracy theories.

Signing off!

Yes, with your love of cherry picking, if you exclude the financial “lobbying” Uber has done, understood as bribery and largely illegal in every country beside the U.S., then no bribery occurred!

If anything, all this thread had demonstrated is an extreme need on your behalf to defend your belief in a tooth-fairy version of Capitalism, and scream “COMMUNIST” and plug your ears whenever confronted with reality of mommy and daddy startup putting money under politician’s pillows to win their place in the world.

> understood as bribery and largely illegal in every country beside the U.S

Do you genuinely believe this?

Do I genuinely believe that startups funneling millions of dollars to politicians in campaign donations, speaking fees, and giving them plush gigs when they leave office is a legalized form of bribery? Yes. Is most of this illegal in other developed democracies? Yes.

I feel like after the whole SBF fiasco this should all be quite obvious…

I'm late to this, but both of you broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do flamewars on HN, and especially please avoid tit-for-tat spats, in the future. We ban accounts that get into this sort of thing regularly; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You've posted some good comments in other threads, so hopefully this should be easy to fix if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart. We'd be grateful!

I'm late to this, but both of you broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do flamewars on HN, and especially please avoid tit-for-tat spats, in the future. We ban accounts that get into this sort of thing regularly; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You've posted some good comments in other threads, so hopefully this should be easy to fix if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart. We'd be grateful!