This is a well-written and illuminating article, but I’m very skeptical of the author’s suggestion that encouraging younger generations to become politicians would help alleviate the nuclear problem. For instance, the author seems to claim that the main cause of politicians being generally bad is that there aren’t enough people with good qualities trying to be involved in politics. But it seems doubtful that the fault is just that of there not being enough good politicians rather than that political systems generally incentivize bad behavior from politicians, that politicians tend to come from very privileged classes, etc…
This is a well-written and illuminating article, but I’m very skeptical of the author’s suggestion that encouraging younger generations to become politicians would help alleviate the nuclear problem. For instance, the author seems to claim that the main cause of politicians being generally bad is that there aren’t enough people with good qualities trying to be involved in politics. But it seems doubtful that the fault is just that of there not being enough good politicians rather than that political systems generally incentivize bad behavior from politicians, that politicians tend to come from very privileged classes, etc…
This is what I was thinking as well regarding the suggestion, not sure if that it is solvable…