• @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    09 months ago

    You gotta go with the people who don’t want the job

    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has got you there!

    The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      09 months ago

      In a similar vein:

      A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.