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“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

― Douglas Adams

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hodlbod 1y ago

I think about this quote pretty often

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Hanshan 1y ago

in the old days

Long Ago in China,

being a public servant was very prestigious,

but you were expected to live meagerly

and were socially ostracized if you used your position to enrich yourself.

such social expectations solve this problem.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1y ago

And they cut their nuts off.

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