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Do you have to be scum of the Earth to be a world leader these days or is it just a nice to have?
boop I mean, I don't think there was the time in which majority of rulers weren't scum.
@rad Yeah, maybe I was being overly generous with the “these days” bit.
It is a good day to ask that question.
Let's see if we can find any world leaders we respect.
How about Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico? She's a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, favors recognition of a Palestinian state, is pro-LGBT, done good work on the IPCC, has a PhD in energy engineering with a lot of scholarly publications. Doesn't appear to have any visible corruption or scandals. By most accounts, she's also not a jerk.
Whaddayathink?
@aral The scum rises to the top of the cesspool of humanity.
@aral it always is. The hierarchy encourages greed and power hoarding to maintain itself anyone who wants to rise in a hierarchical society need to be selfish and power hungry.
https://brianpklaas.com/corruptible
Haven't read this book, so I don't know yet what to think of it, but just based on the information about it, I suspect that:
1: No you don't /always/ have to
2: But often it definitely helps
3: In some cases, the causality works the other way round
4: It may not have to be that way but removing the scum from leadership and keeping it out may be something of a longer-term challenge.
It's definitely on my list of books to read. Which is an unsettlingly long list :(