A lot of people say lobbyists don’t have a place in society, but what about those cages medieval cities used to hang corpses in as a warning to others?
Shit, I thought it was just made up to look cool in, like, faux-medieval settings like Dark Souls
It’s hard to say exactly how common, or ever real, a lot of medieval tortures actually were.
This just unlocked a core memory from when I had a temp job in high school at a major banking Corp and for whatever reason had to take their course on mortgage lending stuff.
At one point the instructor asked which out of the things in the slide was discrimination: refusing to lend to someone based on their race, their gender, their income level, their religion. I answered all of them and was gently corrected. The right answer was of course that all except income level was discrimination because poor people are not a legally protected class.
That last sentence is perfect.
The reminder that the only distinction of bribery and lobbying is that, if it is legal, it is lobbying, if it is illegal, it is bribery. There is no deeper distinction than that.
Illegal: Handing a government official a $20 bill
Legal: Giving the official a $100k donation
