• x00z@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    It’s pure lobbying.

    That CEO’s company made $22 billion in profit or something. Put just $1 billion of that in lobbying and you got a whole army of people manipulating the results in favor of the current status quo, and you’ll have your $21 billion instead of $0.