It's called a bribe, folks.
Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The rewards to attracting the right people in the corporate world can more than justify a six-figure speech. Hedge funds often invite potential clients to events featuring prominent speakers. As one hedge fund manager has explained, if just one client “decides to invest $10 million… the firm will snag a 2 percent management fee—which works out to $200,000” per year. This on the other hand seems like a very legitima…
I guess I think that my point still stands. The existence of legitimate reasons does not rule out or make less likely illegitimate ones. The main way I think this topic goes wrong is becoming a trial. In a trial you are looking for definite proof of unacceptable (and ideally illegal) misconduct. This is not a trial question, IMO. If you find out the girls have been in the boys room while at band camp, you can probabl…
I wonder how much Trump could get paid to Tweet.
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#133Do they give a discount for speaking gigs in/around their hometown? It seems like 90+% of the "work" (and certainly the time) involved in most of the out-of-town speaking gigs would be traveling to and from them, rather than the actual speaking.
Don't sell yourself by the hour. Sell by value.
But 'time is money' is even truer for busy famous people like these than for typical hourly wage earners. If demand were infinite, they could probably do something like 5x as many in town speaking gigs as out of town ones, and still have more downtime. And when not speaking/traveling I'm sure they have any number of things they'd rather be doing.
Perhaps I phrased this suboptimally by asking about a "discount". Maybe a better question would be, is there a surcharge for the travel time required for out of town gigs?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
What universe is that happening in? There have been around 50 smoke-screen fake 'scandals' invented around Hillary in particular. None have come to anything. Millions mis-spent in tax money on what amounts to political slander.
Such as? Hillary's emails? Potential mishandling of classified information, violations of record keeping laws, and perjury. That's significant, and has nothing to do with her gender. Which investigation do you think was mere bullying and not about something significant?
I think some commenters here talk as Hilary supporters.
I, on the other hand, could not care less for either candidate, I'm not voting there anyway.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Well this is exactly what fta is about No, tfa explicitly downplays this. > People also give this kind of money to famous non politicians. Only famous non-politicians have interesting and specific things to say (e.g. someone like Malcom Gladwell, etc). Few care what a politician has to say, after all they hear what they have to say all the time, in interviews, public statements, campaign speeches, etc.
>Only famous non-politicians have interesting and specific things to say (e.g. someone like Malcom Gladwell, etc) Malcolm Gladwell is paid to be a presentable face for the tobacco, banking and pharma industries: http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
AND also sells millions of books to people who just want to read what he says.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's more than enough evidence that she used her influence to help people who gave her money, too much to list here, so here's one extreme example: > a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-donor-sensitive-intel...
Yeah I've seen that before. It's really not that interesting. The intelligence board was about nuclear proliferation and they were expanding to include folks with a wider range of skills (rather than just nuclear/political experts). His technology expertise fits what they were after.
His expertise in high-frequency trading?
How was that related to nuclear proliferation?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I've seen that before. It's really not that interesting. The intelligence board was about nuclear proliferation and they were expanding to include folks with a wider range of skills (rather than just nuclear/political experts). His technology expertise fits what they were after.
His expertise in high-frequency trading? How was that related to nuclear proliferation?
In the technology that enables HFT, sure. And like I said, they were expanding their expertise beyond nuclear proliferation experts. Having experts in other areas is valuable. Surely you're aware that the intersection of networking technology and nuclear concerns is non-empty.
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#138It's kind of a shame that this article devolves into political discussion, as that is the least interesting aspect of the thing.
Public speaking is hard af, and being even decent at it pays dividends.
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#139Re: Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
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Who paid the bill for that talk? I bet it wasn't Goldman & Sachs.
Look at their list of speakers. Russel Simmons, Deepak Chopra, Shaq. They invite all kinds of people. These are usually in the big offices in NY or London so most of the attendees are likely to be liberals.
What are you talking about? I'm asking specifically about Barney Frank to the author of the comment above.