Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
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Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
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#2When a common man does it, it's called bribery. When a lobbyist does it, it's a great law.
Re: Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
#3When a common man does it, it's called bribery. When a lobbyist does it, it's a great law.
Most of the people listed in this article aren't politicians, and so can't enact any laws. And even when they are politicians, it looks like they are almost always retired politicians, who can't enact any laws.
Some of them are even counter-establishment figures like satirists and even hackers (in the security sense).
Hillary Clinton is a prominent example, but the article's explanation is that she is invited as a retired secretary of state, as other retired secretaries of state have been, rather than as a current presidential candidate, which seems reasonable.
'it's a great law' doesn't even make sense in your sentence. What's a great law? Bribing people? Bribing people isn't lawful.
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#4It is not famous people, it is Hillary Clinton.
As the article says, famous people get paid less than 50.000.
Why does Hillary gets paid five times that amount:
1-Because the Clintons already repealed Glass–Steagall Act removing controls on the financial industry and giving them billions in the process. Even a million is nothing compared to the billions they have received and the billions they will receive from Clinton.
2-Hillary is the responsible person for US invading three new countries and creating havoc on there in the last years. This invasions correspond to a transfer of several billions to the Arms industry. Even a million is nothing compared to billions they have received and the billions they will receive from Clinton.
2-Big companies had made big business with her and Obama. TPP, TIPP will make billions for them.
3-It is the candidate elected by the establishment for obvious reasons(look above). Most newspapers support Clinton, the Democrat party supports Clinton above Sanders over what most people wanted, the big companies...
Re: Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
#5This is how RMS has made a living for 2 decades. One advantage to attending these is being able to briefly talk to the speaker afterwards if they stick around, like asking RMS about his papers in the 1970s about propagation, dependencies and backtracking for building large-scale symbolic systems.
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#6Has anybody here ever had her/his mind changed by a great overpaid speaker?
I've seen a lot of speeches in my professional life, and the ones that stuck the most were usually from non-famous low-paid speakers. The more famous and accomplished (and American, actually) the speaker is, the more the speech would steer toward a self-eulogy of the person's work achievements. And it's boring.
It's a bit sad that most of the time this kind of talks are nothing more than marketing stunts for both the speakers and the conference organizers.
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#7When a common man does it, it's called bribery. When a lobbyist does it, it's a great law.
Most of the people listed in this article aren't politicians, and so can't enact any laws. And even when they are politicians, it looks like they are almost always retired politicians, who can't enact any laws. Some of them are even counter-establishment figures like satirists and even hackers (in the security sense). Hillary Clinton is a prominent example, but the article's explanation is that she is invited as a re…
Only amateurs bribe any more. Professionals negatively bribe: They sponsor the whole show and just stop giving you money once you oppose.
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#8Has anybody here ever had her/his mind changed by a great overpaid speaker? I've seen a lot of speeches in my professional life, and the ones that stuck the most were usually from non-famous low-paid speakers. The more famous and accomplished (and American, actually) the speaker is, the more the speech would steer toward a self-eulogy of the person's work achievements. And it's boring. It's a bit sad that most of the…
I don't know about changing my mind per se, but I definitely got a new perspective on financial regulation after attending a talk by Barney Frank (famous for the Dodd-Frank bill). I don't remember the exact details now, but hearing about how he designed the regulations was very interesting, even if it was a pretty high-level description. It colored my understanding of the regulation in a way that just reading a description on Wikipedia didn't.
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#9Do 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.
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#10When a common man does it, it's called bribery. When a lobbyist does it, it's a great law.
Most of the people listed in this article aren't politicians, and so can't enact any laws. And even when they are politicians, it looks like they are almost always retired politicians, who can't enact any laws. Some of them are even counter-establishment figures like satirists and even hackers (in the security sense). Hillary Clinton is a prominent example, but the article's explanation is that she is invited as a re…
> she is invited as a retired secretary of state, as other retired secretaries of state have been, rather than as a current presidential candidate
Did she leave the part of her that was a future (at the time) presidential candidate at home?