▲ 78 ▼ Lottery winner (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 60 comments fedilink hide all child comments If someone won $500,000,000 in the lottery, what would be the most effective way to spend it to change the political situation in America? Edit: Asking for a friend. Also; as much as I appreciate the violent suggestions, I’m thinking more positively focused.
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) Considering the small amounts of money we do know about in corruption, I would day you massively overestimate how much someone costs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) They're not all Lauren Boebert, but there's a lot more money than half a billion being thrown around in politics. If half a billion were enough to just buy all the politicians Musk would have done it a long time ago, that's about 1/400th of his net worth when he keeps his mouth shut. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eheran@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago In total, yes, maybe more. But over, likely, thousands of people and, mostly, for minor things here and there. Also, just throwing money at people is not somehow a failsafe way to get something. Not everyone can be corrupted and not everyone seeing the corruption is going to be quiet about it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) They're not all Lauren Boebert, but there's a lot more money than half a billion being thrown around in politics. If half a billion were enough to just buy all the politicians Musk would have done it a long time ago, that's about 1/400th of his net worth when he keeps his mouth shut. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Eheran@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago In total, yes, maybe more. But over, likely, thousands of people and, mostly, for minor things here and there. Also, just throwing money at people is not somehow a failsafe way to get something. Not everyone can be corrupted and not everyone seeing the corruption is going to be quiet about it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago In total, yes, maybe more. But over, likely, thousands of people and, mostly, for minor things here and there. Also, just throwing money at people is not somehow a failsafe way to get something. Not everyone can be corrupted and not everyone seeing the corruption is going to be quiet about it. permalink fedilink source parent