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H.I. #97: Tesla in Space

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The Conflict of Interest Between a Civil Service and a Business Person

The problem comes from and I know there's a difference here between a businessman and a commercial entity. People have a resistance or some people have a resistance to people in positions of great power and authority using that to give themselves even more. The best example I could think of was say you elected a leader of a country who happened to own a bunch of hotels or golf courses or something like that but when they became leader they started using all their facilities and their commercial interests in the duties of their political office. You'd start to think hang on you're using that to your advantage to feather your own nest, he says.

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