@libramoon the way we select authorities is pretty bad. Most leadership positions including presidents and cops and priests and bosses, we say 'here's a position that gives you power and influence over other people's lives, apply now!' That's why the vast majority of the applicants are self-serving power-hungry assholes, because those are the benefits being offered. To fix it we either need better ways to weed those out, or we need to take those benefits away so they won't want to apply.

@libramoon that's a nice idea, but I'm not sure how that would be executed. I'm more partial to diluting the positions so they don't hold the same significance in our society, but that's one of those things where the transition is limited by society's ability to adapt.