A lot of people say lobbyists don't have a place in society, but what about those cages medieval cities used to hang corpses in as a warning to others?
This just unlocked a core memory from when I had a temp job in high school at a major banking Corp and for whatever reason had to take their course on mortgage lending stuff.
At one point the instructor asked which out of the things in the slide was discrimination: refusing to lend to someone based on their race, their gender, their income level, their religion. I answered all of them and was gently corrected. The right answer was of course that all except income level was discrimination because poor people are not a legally protected class.
The reminder that the only distinction of bribery and lobbying is that, if it is legal, it is lobbying, if it is illegal, it is bribery. There is no deeper distinction than that.
Part of the trick is that the way lobbying is defined, both writing a letter to your senator and taking them on an all expenses paid trip to your private island then buying them a mansion count as "lobbying"