alt Hacker NewsYeah, and what if Lutnick doesn't care about making America better but just making money for himself? And his salary is not tied to his performance, but to his sycophancy?
It is not as if he is going to die of starvation because of tariffs. He has no skin in the game.
In my experience, people who operate that way often convince themselves that they can do both. They'll make themselves rich, that's the primary goal, but they contort reality enough to paint the picture of a win-win.