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Corruption

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Senator Warren called the conman's secret meeting with Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel "corruption". This is correct.

This may well be corruption in the narrowest moral sense; campaign funds from the rich are effectively bribes. However, there is a broader sense of corruption: even in the absence of an outright bribe, the power of the rich corrupts Democracy. This meeting is certainly a part of that.