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Quite frankly they don't even know how a normal economy works, how manufacturing works, what generates real middle class job growth, how wealth is created (hint: not from insider deals via political connections). They're like captains of a ship that know nothing about how a ship is built or what makes it float.


Or like developers that got promoted to management and have no idea how to actually manage.


Actually, if you want to continue the theme, the better analogy would be people managing developers who have no idea how to make software.


Or whether or not giving orders to steer it directly into an iceberg is a bad idea.


I would equate democracy to a ship where the captaincy is decided by whomever promises the most goodies out of the ship's rations.


Probably a pirate ship, then:

The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code


Is that a comment about Google or Politicians




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