> totally corrupt both them and society. How? There would be no political campaigns, no billionaire patrons, no popularity contests, and no way to influence wh

> totally corrupt both them and society. How? There would be no political campaigns, no billionaire patrons, no popularity contests, and no way to influence who is chosen. Picking low information, uneducated people wouldn't work. Furthermore, the vast majority of people without advanced degrees are barely literate (through no fault of their own) because of the business theater of insisting on only hiring candidates with college degrees, which has led to a steady increase in cost but a decline in quality of undergraduate studies. The undergraduate side of US universities is nothing like they were pre-1940. Even high school education is a shadow of its former self. Even public high schools in 1938 America used to teach Latin and conversational French to pupils not destined for academia.