People often ask, why do so many “bad people” end up representing us. Friedrich Hayek offers a compelling response in The Road to Serfdom, Chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top.”
Hayek argues that centralized power and economic planning attract individuals driven by ruthless ambition and a lack of moral restraint, as these traits help them navigate and dominate such systems. The structure of power seems to reward the unscrupulous, a cycle we’ve yet to escape.
https://fee.org/resources/the-road-to-serfdom-chapter-10-why-the-worst-get-on-top/
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The Road to Serfdom:
https://cdn.mises.org/Road%20to%20serfdom.pdf
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