General Right-Wing Fuckery.

[Beebs]

Originally Posted by thekremlin

The point that FC always misses, though, is the causality: he thinks just because someone gets paid for something, it is a good thing they are doing. This would be true in a perfect world but to think it is true in this one means you think that there is no friction in government. I don't think anyone thinks that.

How does somebody get paid? Through mutual exchange. Why does mutual exchange happen? Because people are self interested and will exchange money or product if they believe they are increasing their self interest, which means the person getting paid "did something good" for the person that paid them.