That's the crazy part though, it's probably not at all cheaper in the long term but they're incapable of seeing anything long term. Frankly it's amazing any of them even grasp object permanence.

[–] sour@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they're supposed to be smart

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being born to parents with money doesn't make them smart.

[–] sour@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

it makes people think they're smart

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're not paying millions to cut millions off of their taxes. They're paying thousands to cut millions. Y'all. This is arithmetic.

Spend a while in the ISP business, for a few of 'em, had eyes on this sort of thing for that particular field.

The cable providers would drop a couple of thousands in a politician's war chest, vote purchased. Imagine Comcast paying out $10,000 for every House and Senate seat, all of them. Chicken change.

If anything, I'm insulted our politicians don't require a substantial bribe. C'mon guys! If you're going to fuck millions of us over, get paid!

[–] Chives@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 9 points 2 years ago

You're exactly right. Politicians are an extremely cheap date. It's disgraceful to sell out constituencies in the first place - and more disgraceful still that they do it for so little.

The revolving door between public service and private industry provides other forms of compensation while at the same time forcing subservience throughout elected tenure. It's devious.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course it's democracy. One dollar, one vote!

[–] Huschke@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But "demos" mean people in ancient Greek so it should probably be renamed to "whatever the word for money is in Greek" -cracy.

[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nomiscracy

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

Apologies to the international apes on this one, I'm sure this totally doesn't apply to where you live ;)

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

There's probably also power dynamics contributing here. A sense of "I don't have to let you force me to pay taxes, because I can just change the rules", basically.

[–] doctorplasmatron@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

woah, what happened with the upvotes here?!? most posts I see have a few dozen upvotes at most, here this one's 400+

Let's hope the bots haven't migrated to lemmy too!

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is federated with huge servers.

The other 300 votes are likely from lemmy.ml and lemmy.world.

But don't discount the >1k people directly watching the drs lemmy.