No, people desire power (political or not) for more than one singular reason. Outside the realms of true global (or even country, or state level...) power, I'v

No, people desire power (political or not) for more than one singular reason. Outside the realms of true global (or even country, or state level...) power, I've been driven to "power" before because I felt that my part of the community was being wronged and I had the attributes to fix it. When I fixed that wrong, I relinquished that power and went back to my place of relative obscurity (the way I like it). Was I motivated by some basic thirst towards being the leader of my community? Nope. I was driven by anger and injustice for my community. Are there are basic instincts at play? Probably, maybe, I don't know, but the simple point I'm making here is that you can't reduce it to evolutionary advantage of being in charge, otherwise people would never relinquish the power. Humans are social creatures, and wildly vary in what they offer the group, and when they feel the need to.