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“The People Most Drawn To Power Are Usually The Least Fit To Wield It.”
It does feel like there’s been a reckoning in the last 10 years around the bad things that happen when the wrong people get into power. It might have come from Trump, Putin, Orban, or any number of corporate scandals, but it does seem like we’re at least more cognizant of it now. Change it? No. But we at least have the words to discuss it, including some hardcore therapy-speak.
Well, along today comes superstar academic Adam Grant writing in The New York Times, and he proposes that we just end elections altogether. The idea is laughable and would make most people recoil, especially those whose only relevance in the world is contemplating the next campaign cycle and fighting about different candidates (which is more people than we admit). Here is Grant’s article:
