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Probably a sign that it is past time to tightly regulate all AI-aligned companies and their products to set up guard rails to prevent this level of corruption. I am a person who lives in a state where it is totally legal for lobbyists to walk the floor of the state legislature handing out envelopes of cash to any representative who will line up behind their proposed legislation. Bribery buys state laws here and it bu…
I am very curious- what state?
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If your business is large enough, if you don't donate to politicians, they will target your business. The government is massive and inserts itself into business operations all the time. The inevitable results happen.
There ARE regulations for sure. But they exist to protect the population at large. For example, food safety laws were not created out of government hostility but rather because food was unsafe. Read (or read about) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair if you want to get creeped out about the food industry in the 1930s before regulations
Consider the enormous difficulty and expense people in Palisades have getting permits to rebuild.
Yes, I read "The Jungle". It's a work of fiction, not a documentary. So is "The Grapes of Wrath".
"Voting with your Wallet" - the American way.
The problem is you can’t really limit money without limiting speech. Perhaps it’s still in the public interest to do so, but the constitution doesn’t allow it.
It is very abnormal, and is legal bribery.
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The problem is you can’t really limit money without limiting speech. Perhaps it’s still in the public interest to do so, but the constitution doesn’t allow it.
There is only one country where money is considered speech. It is very abnormal, and is legal bribery.
Yet they still have paid political ads. All political advertisements arent banned in other countries. Should they be?
But what about the "AI industry"
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But the comparison is of money spent
money spent ON X. Where X is almonds or elections.