If not, how much would you counteroffer?

(If you aren’t an American, assume for this hypothetical that you were suddenly granted citizenship and all other requirements are waived.)

  • cereal7802
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    22 years ago

    I cost more than $1m . It would need to be closer to $5Mif not $10m for me to sell out and do as they expect. being president pulls a $400k salary as it is…that is over 4 times what i make already so if someone want s to buy my presidency, it is going to be as close ot fuck you money as I can get

    cereal7802 for president

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    72 years ago

    No I would not take that. The rich life of being a 4-to-8-millionaire would not be worth the self disgust and guilt I’d feel over knowing I’d sold out my country.

  • @HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    122 years ago

    People don’t become president because they want to get rich; most of them are already rich, and could make more money if they were working in the private sector. (Although being an elected national politician has great benefits, like pensions, security details, health benefits that are far better than almost anything you’d get privately, etc.) In most cases, they want power. So you’re going to need to offer some kind of equivalency.

    At a certain point, money becomes raw power, but it’s not when it’s just a million here or there, not anymore. After all. the president may not have huge amounts of money, but he has the ability to suggest that the DoJ to start investigating you.

    • Muetzenman
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      12 years ago

      He wasn’t a typical prsident in anyway. He didn’t want to be president, he wanted to win and people to fill his need for approval. He needs to get what he wants so he shills out for unbelivably cheep.

  • @hellishharlot@programming.dev
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    President makes 400,000 a year for a min of 4 years (1,600,000) and a max of 8 years (3,200,000) so I’d probably ask for 5,000,000 a year for them to call the shots and an extra 1,000,000 for anything I don’t think will get me reelected.

    4 years of 5mil nets me 20mil and 8 nets me 40mil. I stash that away in a moderate dividend spread and I’ll be just fine for the overwhelming majority of my life.

  • @Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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    182 years ago

    Lmao fuck no. If I’m president I’m already making wayyy more money than I ever aimed for, legally. After I retire I can just make money selling book or w/e.

    I can barely even stand taking orders at my normal, chill job. Imagine how fuckung aweful it would be if it wasn’t just “fix this bug while making this feature and write a presentation about it” but “enact bad public policy while managing the unknown political landscape in our favor and attending to all other expected duties”. Once again I say “fuck no.”

  • olorin99
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    72 years ago

    Yeah nah, the US president makes 400k USD a year + benefits. That should be more than enough for any person.

    If not, how much would you counteroffer?

    If someone attempted to bribe me I would automatically assume their proposal was a bad idea.

  • Zippythezigzag
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    92 years ago

    If i became president then the world is already a lost cause and money is worthless.

  • @Zippy@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    No. First your going to be somewhat wealthy to begin. Secondly the pay is fairly good and third it just is not worth the headache.

    I am a well of person and there is no amount of money that would interest me to do something that illegal much less immoral. Few wealthy people need to take illegal money when they can generate it legally.

    I think the majority of people who would take money in this position would do it out of ego over any other motive.

    • WtfEvenIsExistence3️OP
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      12 years ago

      This is assuming you just become president with your current status of wealth. Maybe the internet made a meme and decided elect you “for the lulz”, maybe the electors just don’t care, maybe mass hysteria, divine intervention, doesn’t matter. In this hypothetical; You suddently become president, this is a question of whether you give a shit about ethics (or if you even have a moral compass at all).

  • @DrQuint@lemm.ee
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    32 years ago

    “Only one million? Man, this economy is really bad, getting someone should do something about it.”