Re:Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
by wahnfrieden on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:28PM
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Since we are talking about political leadership at the highest levels (not pastoral local municipalities), a good comparison with priesthood would be the Vatican. Even in priesthood, when there is concentrated power over vulnerable populations, we can find: wealth hoarding, money laundering, collaboration with organized crime, and protection of rampant sexual abuse. For hundreds of years. This suggests to me that the issue is hierarchy more than it is quality of those who reign over us.
Re:Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
by BobbyTables2 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:49PM
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I wouldn’t say “nobody becomes a priest for money” …
https://www.allpastors.com/top-20-richest-pastors-in-america...
Yes, priesthood is perhaps not a traditional path toward achieving $100M+ net worth. Yet people have gotten there that way…
These people who become priests do so for other reasons and they largely want to exit the commercial economy. That’s the type of people government should be made of. Under this system pretty much 100 percent of politicians wouldn’t have even become a politician.