Day 1,979: discretionary, graft, Proximity, skew, hobble
It is easy to ridicule such goals as naive—$2trn is more than the government’s entire discretionary spending.
One is cronyism and graft.
Proximity to power could let him skew regulations and tariffs and hobble competitors in fields from cars and cryptocurrency to autonomous vehicles and AI.
Artwork of the day
NO GRAFT HERE
Cassius_Marcellus_CoolidgeStyle:KitschGenre:animal painting
Word of the day
discretionary: relating to things that you pay for that are not considered completely necessary, or to moneyspent on these things:
graft: the act of getting money or advantage through the dishonest use of political power and influence:
Proximity: the state of being near in space or time:
skew: to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort:
hobble: to walk in an awkward way, usually because the feet or legs are injured:
Quote of the day
“What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?”
― Anne Lamott