I mean besides the ethics and corruption of it, as an adult "professional" I'd just be embarrassed to accept someone else paying my way - other than maybe family. I am thinking of people like Thomas and now some state department person accepting paid vacations. Or Trump weddings, etc. If I cannot afford something, I'd never in a million years have someone else pay for it for me. #USPol #Ethics #Bribes #SCOTUS
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To be clear I'm not taking about being invited to stay at someone's holiday home, or out to dinner as a guest. I'm talking about people paying for your airfare, etc. Things that one would normally pay for oneself.
@nomdeb Things get a little weird in academia, where at least professors are often invited to other universities to speak or to conferences and their travel and hotel is covered. I've know some to separately pay for a spouse to fly someplace particularly nice and then extend their stay with their own money, but the big airfare to europe or something is paid for by the host school/department.
(this doesn't usually happen for staff, I don't get free trips)