Oh so this is Manchin's game
A job at Amazon, WaPo or Twitch
My hunch...
He'll be on the board of directors of like maybe as many as 10 companies. It could be all the companies you mentioned. I have no idea how much those positions pay but it doesn't matter - he'll use those seats as networking, leverage and for grifting. Watch him get his vile, grifty daughter on the boards too. Fuckers.
He'll get some sweet, sweet sinecure (At perhaps Amazon?) with a title like special senior consultant. He'll get paid seven figures and he won't actually have to do any real work. If he likes to travel - he'll "consult" in Italy or Japan or Brazil or wherever he wants to go on the snazzy corporate jet with whoever he wants to travel with him. He'll get other perks up the yazoo. He probably will do nearly all his "work" remotely. But he might actually have to physically go to a location in the US a few times a year for show.
He'll actually get far more than seven figures annually due to his stock options and the fact that the US media sucks ass. So when Manchin is on year 5 (or whatever) of his Amazon gig and he cashes them in - he'll get $60 million or whatever. And the media will pretend that's not somehow actually part of the way Amazon pays him. It's some kind of magic event not directly connected to his job.
Speeches. He goes somewhere, opens his mouth, the wordy words come out for a couple hours and they give him $100,000 or whatever,
I'm sure there are ez grifts beyond the board of directors, sinecures, and speeches but they aren't coming to mind right now.
Ninja edit
The salaries of Boards of Director in the US range from $20,665 to $560,142 , with a median salary of $100,898.
As I understand it - their entire "job" is going to meetings a few times a year. And many grifters are on loads of board of directors. Ez money.
Edit
MasterShakeVoice mentioned an obvious grift I forgot about...
- sell access to foreign governments
There are also various Foundation/NGO grifts. And you can sell access to foreign governments like Larry Summers or Tony Blair, although Manchin probably isn't actually diplomatic enough for that
sell access to foreign governments
Ah. That too. How could I forget that?
Manchin probably isn’t actually diplomatic enough for that.
You never know. He loves money.
yeah, this is pretty much my guess too. he's also already made many millions during his career, so everything he gets is just a bonus to him. he could not give less of a fuck about anyone else.
There's a worthless lanyard in Langley that just permanently ruined their good dress pants.
Holy fuck - Adam Johnson with the absolute monster dunk...
The Ne0liberal account is run by PPI which is itself a Third Way front group funded by Exxon, Big Pharma lobby PhRMA, Dow chemical, private health insurance companies, and I’d wager—though we don’t know for sure because it’s largely secret—Amazon
Update by somebody else
If it seems weird that Jeff Bezos is retweeting the globe account it’s because Amazon funds their think tank, the “Progressive Policy Institute”.
Adam's reply is...
Ah.
Hey. That's my line!
The Ne0liberal account is run by PPI which is itself a Third Way front group
adam johnson is correct
PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
Colin Mortimer
I don't know that I expected people connected to the neoliberal account to look like. But he seems like a perfect fix.
Anyone got any good images to reply with? There's a severe lack of content mocking him. Only found the Dwayne Johnson soundbyte meme.
Idk Bezos, maybe in order to help the 'least affluent' you should just let them fucking unionize? But no, that would contradict this 'benevolent oligarch' shtick you've got going.
or give them a mere half of his money. he could give the poor a hundred billion and still have a hundred billion. money is so dumb.
indeed. a "mere" single billion is still more than anyone could spend in many lifetimes, unless you "cheat" by buying a football team or something. even 10 million is an amount of wealth that is absolutely incomprehensible to most people. 1 million is a pipe dream for many, though now we're in a range that includes 20-25% of Americans.
The way wealth scales under capitalism is absolutely insane. well beyond our ability to really internalize/conceptualize.
10 million is an amount of wealth that is absolutely incomprehensible to most people.
10 million is also "Retiring with some comfort at 65" for maybe 10 Americans, but probably fewer given current rising prices on everything.
Dude charges money for his precious "Democracy Dies in Darkness" news mouthpiece. He has a paywall for his propaganda rag. What the fuck? Billionaires can't even do yellow journalism right.
It’s amazing that people will just talk completely out of their ass like that with their real name and face attached.
According to the standard economic doctrine, it does not matter how much the government spends because the fed can just raise interest rates to compensate. The fed has unlimited power to make inflation as low as they like by simply raising interest rates. If the fed hasn’t been raising interest rates by enough because they’re worried about it crashing the economy, then that’s a sign that the root cause is a decrease in supply, not whatever this libertarian goldbug nonsense that even neoliberals make fun of that bezos is spouting here is.
I literally can't hear you, because I am a smart economics guy who likes Joe Manchin.
Weirdly, the Neoliberal/Bezos chat isn't interested in talking about the $1.5T in military and security spending the feds churn out annually. Never mind the tens of billions going to Lethal Aid
I'd bet monetary policy and deficits have almost nothing to do with the current inflation compared to monopolies and product shortages, manufactured and natural. History shows demand pull inflation will be resistant to the fed and budget.
damn i wonder what they could do to lower the deficit. like i wonder what causes a deficit. like i wonder how they could remedy a situation in which more money was being spent than taken in. i wonder if maybe there's some kind of like power the federal government has that's explicitly enumerated in the US constitution to flip that equation around.
This isn't even good economics. It is perfectly possible to use taxation to impact inflation and to target that taxation at the very wealthy. This is just a standard part of the neoliberal playbook: create inflation by price-gouging, then demand that the cost be taken out of the pockets of workers.
