• Tedesche
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    42 months ago

    I think this is it, actually. Having a lot of money can lead to spending it on frivolous things, but I don’t think that’s what we mean by corruption. It’s when you have so much money that you can use that money to influence people in power that it gets bad. Suddenly, when getting your way is merely a question of bribery and you have plenty of means to do it, people start thinking they have a right to pull the strings in the way they see fit.

    • @theparadox
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      22 months ago

      You don’t even need bribery. You can just throw money at something and make things happen.

      If you think something is true, you can pay the world to prioritize things as if it were true.

      If you think vaccines cause autism and you are rich, you can create massive “education” campaigns and the like to convince people its true. You can buy ads telling people its true. You can amass an enormous following of people who believe you and change policy without bribery.

    • @roofuskit
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      12 months ago

      Yeah when people refer to money as power they’re not talking about the d-bag with the McMansion and a cybertruck. They’re talking about a level of wealth few people understand.