• Smart people don’t want the job because they know how difficult it is and don’t want the responsibility.

    Dumb people want the job because they don’t know how difficult it is and don’t care about responsibility; they just want power over others.

    • javiwhite@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      Absolutely. You reminded me of an old hitchhikers guide quote;

      It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.