It just blows my mind how, reliably, selfish people end up in positions of power. They then work the system to increase wealth or power as much as possible, eve

It just blows my mind how, reliably, selfish people end up in positions of power. They then work the system to increase wealth or power as much as possible, everything else including the environment that we all live off of be damned, because you will be dead in 50 years anyway. Where are the altruists? Chanting in some buddhist temple? Why are things so evil?