The Politics of Patronage

I could be appointed to a corporate board that needed more scandinavian americans. Get scholarships, you know, and win mc arthur prize. What have i done for my fellow swedes, particurly the poor ones? Nothing,. So we have this weird patronage system where the patronage doesn't even trickle down, just the the intermediaries. They claim to represent people whom they've literally never met - unlike the ethnic representagi'm not a purist. And you have patronage in every large scale society. The difference is, we don't like who's allowed to to get patronse. Obviously you can. I mean, how much. How much money is the state department