Unlike private actors that must generate revenue by pleasing customers, the sinecures just spend away.

FORBES: Some Dietary Suggestions For Our Regulators

Publicly funded social programs administered by tenured sinecures are not subject to this performance feedback loop.

FORBES: Newt Gingrich Highlights Republican Futility On Spending

They are a rich source of sinecures and other comfort for the political classes.

ECONOMIST: European energy

In truth, they are not sinecures and average director tenure is actually shrinking.

FORBES: Pay Hikes for Directors Should Trigger Clear, Confident Communications

Sinecures only serve one purpose, occupying the precious time you have on earth, time you could spend testing your limits and expanding your view of the world.

FORBES: What Are The Worst Reasons For Taking A Job?

But corruption in Kentucky consists of mining firms leaning on local officials to go easy on environmental regulations, or school boards appointing their members' relatives to sinecures.

ECONOMIST: The poor

Positions on its board of directors are sinecures, board meetings are scripted in advance, and the directors don't hold management accountable in the way American boards now do.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia