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It is correct to be skeptical of people who parlay their fame in one domain into another. The most powerful man in the US right now is just a reality TV star.

It is correct to be skeptical of people who parlay their fame in one domain into another. The most powerful man in the US right now is just a reality TV star. At best, it allows "celebrities" to hop into any domain of their choosing without any real qualification or having earned their way in that particular field.

bdangubic 11mo ago
what qualification does one need to be US President (besides being born in the US and of certain age)? celebrities certainly won’t be doing any open heart surgeries anytime soon :) so there are things you absolutely do not need any qualitications for (Actor/Actress, US President) and there those you do (Surgeon, Attorney…)
- squigz 11mo ago
  The idea that you shouldn't need qualifications - which, might I add, is not the same as certification - to be the President of The United States is a wild one.
  - bdangubic 11mo ago
    I am not sure if there is a single country now (or there was one ever) where there were any requirements/qualifications needed to be the President
    - SenHeng 11mo ago
      https://www.eld.gov.sg/candidate_presidential_qualify.html https://www.eld.gov.sg/candidate_presidential_qualify.html > Public sector service requirement > The public sector service requirement is that the person has: held office for three or more years as Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker of Parliament, Attorney-General, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Auditor-General, Accountant-General or Permanent Secretary; > Private sector service requirement > The private sector service requirement is that the person has: served as the chief executive of a company and the following four criteria are met:
- chickensong 11mo ago
  You need to be rich and well connected.
  - bdangubic 11mo ago
    Obama was neither
    - harvey9 11mo ago
      He might have started out as neither but to get a run at the party nomination required that he developed some good connections first.
      - bdangubic 11mo ago
        yea for sure POTUS (or even just party candidate) will eventually be both you you don’t need to be either to begin with (though it obviously helps, more and more countries are choosing billionaires to run them :) )
    - chickensong 11mo ago
      He was a Harvard graduate, published author, senator, millionaire, prior to running for president.
snowwrestler 11mo ago
Not just fame and celebrity. Any major success occurs within a certain narrow context, and when people stray outside that context they are not necessarily going to be better than anyone else. There are plenty of examples of business leaders, scientists, etc who tried to hop domains and fell on their faces.
thaumasiotes 11mo ago
> The most powerful man in the US right now is just a reality TV star. That's a strange characterization; he was famous across the country before there was even a concept of "reality TV".
- e40 11mo ago
  He was known by an order of magnitude more people after he became a reality tv star.
  - bnjms 11mo ago
    Right. He parlayed his fame into reality stardom. I added it’s a word way to put it. He became more famous generally but he was already known to NY and powerful people.
  - thaumasiotes 11mo ago
    Really? In the 70s he would have been known to the population that read newspaper comic strips. He's been a household name continuously from then to now.

bdangubic 11mo ago

what qualification does one need to be US President (besides being born in the US and of certain age)? celebrities certainly won’t be doing any open heart surgeries anytime soon :) so there are things you absolutely do not need any qualitications for (Actor/Actress, US President) and there those you do (Surgeon, Attorney…)

squigz 11mo ago
The idea that you shouldn't need qualifications - which, might I add, is not the same as certification - to be the President of The United States is a wild one.
- bdangubic 11mo ago
  I am not sure if there is a single country now (or there was one ever) where there were any requirements/qualifications needed to be the President
  - SenHeng 11mo ago
    https://www.eld.gov.sg/candidate_presidential_qualify.html https://www.eld.gov.sg/candidate_presidential_qualify.html > Public sector service requirement > The public sector service requirement is that the person has: held office for three or more years as Minister, Chief Justice, Speaker of Parliament, Attorney-General, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Auditor-General, Accountant-General or Permanent Secretary; > Private sector service requirement > The private sector service requirement is that the person has: served as the chief executive of a company and the following four criteria are met:
chickensong 11mo ago
You need to be rich and well connected.
- bdangubic 11mo ago
  Obama was neither
  - harvey9 11mo ago
    He might have started out as neither but to get a run at the party nomination required that he developed some good connections first.
    - bdangubic 11mo ago
      yea for sure POTUS (or even just party candidate) will eventually be both you you don’t need to be either to begin with (though it obviously helps, more and more countries are choosing billionaires to run them :) )
  - chickensong 11mo ago
    He was a Harvard graduate, published author, senator, millionaire, prior to running for president.

snowwrestler 11mo ago

Not just fame and celebrity. Any major success occurs within a certain narrow context, and when people stray outside that context they are not necessarily going to be better than anyone else. There are plenty of examples of business leaders, scientists, etc who tried to hop domains and fell on their faces.

thaumasiotes 11mo ago

> The most powerful man in the US right now is just a reality TV star. That's a strange characterization; he was famous across the country before there was even a concept of "reality TV".

e40 11mo ago
He was known by an order of magnitude more people after he became a reality tv star.
- bnjms 11mo ago
  Right. He parlayed his fame into reality stardom. I added it’s a word way to put it. He became more famous generally but he was already known to NY and powerful people.
- thaumasiotes 11mo ago
  Really? In the 70s he would have been known to the population that read newspaper comic strips. He's been a household name continuously from then to now.