For the most part, you only get into the club by being like everyone else in the club.

> but their successors tend to be just as bad

This is interesting. The only person I've ever met in my entire life who wanted to be a politician (and whom I consider to be a person of principle who genuinely wanted to be there to help people) do you know what happened to him on his first day? They tried to bribe him as soon as he took office, and he had to run away from that mess

satoshiplanet

“More” is purely relative and the line separating public from private can be very blurry.

winteryeti

Politics_And_Law

econ

Why fire a CEO in 3 days for a spy but not politicians for trillions in debt?

1. The private sector has more accountability because they can’t just steal from people whenever they want money. 
2. Politicians do get fired at every opportunity, but their successors tend to be just as bad.