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To: elmatador who wrote (47239)	3/8/2009 1:59:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 220711

El M, I learned long ago that the primary attribute of people who become bosses is that they want to be. There are various reasons to be a boss but the main ones are the enjoyment of bossing other people around, having first go at the girls and goodies. People are mostly chimpanzee, so it comes naturally to most of them to fight their way up the pecking order. <I know now that the people in decision making positions don't know what I do. Thus, they and all who depend on them has to suffer.> Because people, even supersonically smart ones, have very limited brainpower, they cannot do more than a little bit of good thinking. Nevertheless, they grab as much power and decision making as they can and proceed to do dumb things. Normally, they like to have a LOT of power. Some go to extremes such as Adolf, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and commit carnage on a grand scale - anything goes to maintain and increase their power and pleasure. In the more banal corporate world, where the powerful still have to comply with laws [for the most part] they do have to have some ability to persuade those appointing them that they are the right stuff. All too often, the main thing they are good at is fighting their way up the tree and convincing higher ups of their worth. In democracies, the required talent is to convince ignorant electorates that they are "the one". Adolf was voted into power. Mugabe still has substantial support and did win elections. Mostly the voters keep it reasonably on the road, though whole countries frequently vote themselves into poverty. India voted for poverty for half a century whereas they could have adopted capitalist ideas right at the beginning. China, with no voting, decided capitalism was a better idea than simply confiscating everything. Great Britain voted itself not so great by adopting socialism, unionism, welfarism, and importing Islamic Jihad and gangsta rap to rule the streets. New Zealand was almost the richest country at one time and is now way down the list and heading in the wrong direction, all done via the ballot box. They appointed people who wanted the state to be very large and had little understanding. Mqurice