If you have not seen the TED talk by Nick Hanauer, then I highly recommend it.
The thing about this I find fascinating is how obvious this is. The fetishization of businessmen in our society is slightly disturbing. The idea that businesspeople are, somehow, possessed of special knowledge that will allow them to be better run government is just wishful thinking. Or more disturbingly ego stroking of the elite.
This is a belief I wish would change, but it seems ingrained in the body public. Even though most of the times it is actually followed through on, it has disastrous results (last to "business" Presidents, George W. Bush, and Herbert Hoover).
-Cheers
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