gwern comments on exists(max(performance(pay))) - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: PhilGoetz 29 July 2011 07:52PM

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Comment author: gwern 29 July 2011 09:28:33PM 6 points [-]

US Congresspeople don't make a lot of money in salary - most make $174,000/yr. They could easily make several times that much as consultants.

They could? I was rather under the impression that the consulting was only because of the Congressional job, and were conditional on the job. Unless you meant, 'long-time incumbents don't make much salary, although they have stockpiled a great deal of quid-pro-quo and could make use of the revolving door, and could quit at any time', which seems like a much less strong incentive...