They have time on hand to waste! No work mean lots time to do public office!
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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Power hungry people are more likely to apply for positions of power. People become politicians because they want to assert power over other people. You don't become a politician if you don't want change.
People with money are greedy by definition and will do their damnedest to keep it.
Is it that billionaires are more likely to hold office, or that people who hold office are more likely to be filthy rich? Likely both, but an interesting but missing statistic would be what the average net worth of people who enter public office is vs. what their net worth is when they leave.
The article says the former.