Tyler Cowen has a theory:
Political jobs would be torture for most people. You have no freedom. You are underpaid and over-bugged. You lose a lot of your privacy. You have to stop writing emails or saying what you think. You don't get to read many good books or go for many quiet walks. It's hard to be a non-conformist. And so on.
Yet it's really hard to get top political jobs. So who gets them? People who truly, deeply love the power.
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