Maybe a 'political philosophy' that boils down to "I just want to be able to own everything including other people with no real restrictions besides capital" doesn't attract the best or the brightest individuals
It hardly needs to, as political leadership contests don't select for intelligence.
At the end of the day, the capitalist class has crushed the proletariat in no small part by being more brutish than the most bloodthirsty Gonzalite. We don't staff the military and the police academies with a handful of 60-year-old chess masters. We stuff it with a bunch of trigger-happy thumb-head 19-year-olds.
Maybe a 'political philosophy' that boils down to "I just want to be able to own everything including other people with no real restrictions besides capital" doesn't attract the best or the brightest individuals
:curious-marx:
It hardly needs to, as political leadership contests don't select for intelligence.
At the end of the day, the capitalist class has crushed the proletariat in no small part by being more brutish than the most bloodthirsty Gonzalite. We don't staff the military and the police academies with a handful of 60-year-old chess masters. We stuff it with a bunch of trigger-happy thumb-head 19-year-olds.