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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 02:55:59 JST Bread up, Bro
   same braindead logic as "we will get better teachers by paying them more!"
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     givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:20:06 JST givenup

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     @af2 @sickburnbro doesn't seem to play out that way.
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     af2 (af2@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:20:07 JST af2

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     @sickburnbro Won't we?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:21:56 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @givenup @af2 It's been shown repeatedly that you can offer extremely good salaries, but it has limited effect on quality of applicants. Bad environment will severely effect quality applicants.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:24:13 JST EvilSandmich

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     @af2 @sickburnbro There's the thought that if they were paid, say $2 million a year that it would even attract some of the people who use congress as their sock puppets to run, and it'd be nice if it might cut down on corruption too. A congresscritter banking $2M is, probably, less likely to care about all the low-level graft that they're into now (part of the criticism of the regime legislature isn't just the corruption, but the fact that they can be bought for so little).
     
     Now, would highly compensated congresscritters be more likely to care about the plight of their constituents? I'm going to have to put a big "doubt" on that one.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:25:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @EvilSandmich @af2 easiest way to cut the corruption would be not pay them more but just make 10x as many. Makes buying out enough to matter too expensive.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 03:32:34 JST EvilSandmich

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     @sickburnbro @af2 I agree, the number of reps is like existence of the penny at this point: a fantasy that we still live in some idealized past.
     
     It's very debatable anyway if there's even anything that can be done to the system to repair it. For instance, there should probably be 2,000 plus reps. There's a really good chance such a legislature would be unworkable, which, it probably is, which, explains part of our current plight (just because there are fewer of them doesn't magically make it *more* workable). As well there's the electoral college issue as the current math at least allows sane White people to still have a tiny (tiny) bit of influence in how the government is run.
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