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My alternative is that they can speak their mind when they aren't representing constituents.


Where "constituents" means "money-weighted interpolation of opinions from constituents, corporations, and politically active non-constituent HNWs alike."


Money is often a proxy for influence. Keeping your mill owners happy is usually good for the mill workers.


So the workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory should have locked all the factory exits themselves? Keeping the employees from taking breaks was definitely the thing that made the owner happy.


Lol




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