<story><title>California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee</title><url>https://calpirg.org/news/cap/california-right-repair-bill-dies-senate-committee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>This is a tired argument. Of course people who have industry experience will continue to work in that industry. And if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an open secret in politics that government jobs are a revolving door to&amp;#x2F;from industry.&lt;p&gt;Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs at the very corporations they benefited while in office.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to be outright bribed while in office (though it&amp;#x27;s not unknown for that to happen), but they know they&amp;#x27;ll be handsomely rewarded once they leave.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to mention them or their family members investing in companies they know will benefit from their actions while in office.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Can anyone familiar with the process, explain exactly how these industry lobbyists win these cases? With a 75% of Californians being pro-right to repair, and with bipartisan support - you&amp;#x27;d think this would be an easy case to argue.&lt;p&gt;Do the lobbyists have some incredibly legitimate insider information they share with the senators? Do they just throw cash&amp;#x2F;donations at them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Becoming a politician is a bit like becoming a musician: Spend the best years of your life &amp;#x27;putting your time in&amp;#x27; with a 98% chance you&amp;#x27;ll never make it big. Only the 2% that made it big get offered those $500k&amp;#x2F;year sinecures.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re already in the powerful 2% you&amp;#x27;ve probably already compromised on your principles many times to get there, so the $500k&amp;#x2F;year for compromising them a little more is practically free money.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re entering politics, though? As you&amp;#x27;ve only got a 2% chance of making the $500k, the expected value is only $10k. Not much of a motivation.</text></comment>
<story><title>California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee</title><url>https://calpirg.org/news/cap/california-right-repair-bill-dies-senate-committee</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawnz</author><text>This is a tired argument. Of course people who have industry experience will continue to work in that industry. And if the chance of being rewarded with a &amp;quot;cushy&amp;quot; job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s an open secret in politics that government jobs are a revolving door to&amp;#x2F;from industry.&lt;p&gt;Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs at the very corporations they benefited while in office.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to be outright bribed while in office (though it&amp;#x27;s not unknown for that to happen), but they know they&amp;#x27;ll be handsomely rewarded once they leave.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to mention them or their family members investing in companies they know will benefit from their actions while in office.</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Can anyone familiar with the process, explain exactly how these industry lobbyists win these cases? With a 75% of Californians being pro-right to repair, and with bipartisan support - you&amp;#x27;d think this would be an easy case to argue.&lt;p&gt;Do the lobbyists have some incredibly legitimate insider information they share with the senators? Do they just throw cash&amp;#x2F;donations at them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guerrilla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s less of an argument and more a list of facts, isn&amp;#x27;t it?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?&lt;p&gt;Obviously because they can&amp;#x27;t afford to because they actually have to &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>