And anyone exercising authority over people (either in companies or governments) who don't have children should be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism.

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Why?

1. A person without children has no personal authority (like a parent has over a child) yet tries to wield it publicly.

2. Raising children changes your perspective on reality, both of yourself and your relationships with others.

3. You experience how growth happens and how to plan and prepare for the future.

This is not to say childless people can't contribute positively, but someone raising children has objectively experienced more about life in this world and opportunities to practice virtue.

“This is not to say childless can't contribute positively”

That’s most magnanimous of you but wouldn’t it be better to cull childless people at the age of 40, least they try making a contribution to the world somehow?

No

But with such limited life experience how could they possibly do anything good?

You're conflating childless people in general with those in authority, as my original post states, and taking issue with a qualifying statement, not the original argument.