• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    1 day ago

    the people who should be in charge don’t want to be

    What? That is utter nonsense.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s not. Power attracts people who want to abuse it. The people most suited for being an actual good leader, aren’t seeking it out.

      • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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        19 hours ago

        I think that’s overly simplistic. Power does attract people who want to abuse it, but it also attracts people who want to change their world for the better.

        The latter group view power more as a weighty responsibility than a privilege, but the power still exists.

        Although that latter group is also more likely to spread their power around, thus reducing the opportunities for abuse by the former group, and… I kind of see your point. But I view it a bit more systemically.

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        10 hours ago

        No.

        There are countless people worthy of such positions and they fight every day to get in.

        To say they don’t want to is to frame it as the left is lazy, when the reality is that the leftists are fucked over by the capitalists.