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A great companion story to my recent post about the crypto industry legitimizing itself by spending more money on corporate lobbying than every other industry besides the oil industry.
A crypto power couple that gave tens of millions to Republican politicians are now both facing jail time for financial crimes.
The future of money, indeed.
@carnage4life I've gotten multiple political text messages here in Pennsylvania
@carnage4life It's funny how Citizens United effectively hooked up our political system to a spigot of laundered criminal money.
Not "ha ha" funny. More like isn't it really strange that the "conservative" majority on the Supreme Court would do that?
@carnage4life it's crimes all the way down. Promoting crypto ought to disqualify someone from any position of authority in either finance or tech. By the way, do you know Sam Altman's pre-OpenAI gig?
@carnage4life There is also this eye-opening article in The New Yorker: "Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster