• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    If you’re an extremely talented person I would offer you the opportunity to bid on a contract to do a specific job.

    If you cared about the country and had a vision you would apply to do it no matter the wage.

    You don’t want a politician to be the most talented person. You want a politician to be the person who has the ideas and hires the right people to get the job done.

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      10 months ago

      The difference between ideals and reality.

      The reality is that there is a class of people that can afford to be MPs, they’re not doing it for the salary or their electorate, there doing it to bend the rules for themselves and their rich mates.

      How many people do you know that do a job for the honour of it? Every now and again you might here a sportsman or someone like that say “I love my job so much I’d do it for free!”, they still all take the money though.

      Your last paragraph is somewhat of a paradox.