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reminds me of the politicians in my native country. very well educated either lawyers, engineers or doctors. but idiots and corrupt. I would rather have a non

by dzonga 5y ago

reminds me of the politicians in my native country. very well educated either lawyers, engineers or doctors. but idiots and corrupt. I would rather have a non degreed non corrupt politician.

seniorivn 5y ago
that's a horrible choice to make, an honest idiot with great power might bring a disaster without even knowing it. I would prefer a highly competitive political system with all sorts of different people as politicians, that has little to none power to affect real people's lives without consent
saiya-jin 5y ago
There is some common perception that an educated person is automatically a moral person. I can see why on average it could increase chances a bit, but my life experience contradicts this quite a bit. Upbringing, general environment and society, the rewards morality brings bear make much bigger impact. I would say even traveling the world, especially the not-so-nice parts and meeting poor ie via backpacking, has much bigger effect on personality than education. Just one example out of many - last weekend had long conversation with very successful and very smart urology surgeon here in Switzerland, where he repeatedly stated how covid is great and godsend and mankind should be culled, too bad that not more are dying from it etc. The same person who in his early 30s is quite a bit overweight, has type 3 diabetes, can't handle physical effort, passed to his kid some genetic abnormality and if he got covid he would probably have some serious issues. I couldn't change his opinion a nanometer. A doctor. Needless to say my faith in humanity decreased a bit on that evening. That and everybody has a price. Or almost everybody. Definitely those that manage to get to top politics and remain there for decades, it ain't for average joe and nice honest folks in any way.

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reminds me of the politicians in my native country. very well educated either lawyers, engineers or doctors. but idiots and corrupt. I would rather have a non

by dzonga 5y ago

reminds me of the politicians in my native country. very well educated either lawyers, engineers or doctors. but idiots and corrupt. I would rather have a non degreed non corrupt politician.

seniorivn 5y ago
that's a horrible choice to make, an honest idiot with great power might bring a disaster without even knowing it. I would prefer a highly competitive political system with all sorts of different people as politicians, that has little to none power to affect real people's lives without consent
saiya-jin 5y ago
There is some common perception that an educated person is automatically a moral person. I can see why on average it could increase chances a bit, but my life experience contradicts this quite a bit. Upbringing, general environment and society, the rewards morality brings bear make much bigger impact. I would say even traveling the world, especially the not-so-nice parts and meeting poor ie via backpacking, has much bigger effect on personality than education. Just one example out of many - last weekend had long conversation with very successful and very smart urology surgeon here in Switzerland, where he repeatedly stated how covid is great and godsend and mankind should be culled, too bad that not more are dying from it etc. The same person who in his early 30s is quite a bit overweight, has type 3 diabetes, can't handle physical effort, passed to his kid some genetic abnormality and if he got covid he would probably have some serious issues. I couldn't change his opinion a nanometer. A doctor. Needless to say my faith in humanity decreased a bit on that evening. That and everybody has a price. Or almost everybody. Definitely those that manage to get to top politics and remain there for decades, it ain't for average joe and nice honest folks in any way.