Topic: Hillary Clinton's post, can Billionaires make good leaders? (Read 151 times)

This looks about right. What would a millionaire do? Try to pay less taxes, they are if anything absolutely obssessed with paying less taxes while enyoing the benefits of living a society that allows them to be richer than others = mark my words, a society that allows them to raise and enjoy privileges, that is not something that should be taken for granted.

Way to pay less taxes is obviously not providing health, giving even less funds to anyone who can place checks on them (FBI, SEC,...)... absolutely credible. But I reckon nobody should be surprised - Trump made it abundantly clear that that was the programme.

Corrupt people will hardly change, even when they are given political power they might still continue thier illegal activities. But there is no guarantee that a good businessman will manage a country's  economy. Most business owners are greedy and always want to exploit the people. Even the richest people in the world are still seeking for more money, so we cannot conclude that if they grab political power they will not see it as avenue to make more money.

Your financial state is not what qualifies you as a good leader but your attributes. A rich or poor man can be a bad leader if the lack the attributes. Is it Kamala Harris herself that will be a good leader when most people cannot confide in her. We are all humans and we can change within a minute. Only that man that has the love for his people and care more about them than himself no matter the situation on ground will make a good leader.

The mask should be removed from such posts altogether, he communicates with foreigners and can leak secret data, he can already be punished by law as a traitor.

You got a very salient point in your post which I want to elaborate.
If a billionaire made his billions by stealing the public funds which is a popular case in African countries, they cannot make good leaders because they didn't suffer to make the money and manage it to that extent.
A billionaire who worked his way up from scratch will make a good leader because knows the process of making and preserving money. So, whether rich or poor, the intent supercedes.

I totally agree with you, rich people are really greedy and selfish
how can you expect them to be good leaders if they only think about themselves, after all you can't get rich if you are not greedy
if you are generous you are destined to lose your wealth in 10 years maximum, that's what i think

It's true. I've also seen the same in my country along the decades. People like going from one extreme to another in an attempt to solve the problems faced on their daily lives, but it never happens for real. And unfortunatelly empathy doesn't exist in politics. People who have that trait are immediately cut from the political scenario by the ones who possess influence inside it. It's a system doomed to failure.

It's only possible to thrive and gain positions inside politics if you are a mercenary ready to go against your principles and ready to cheat on people around you. When you disagree doing that, you can't go ahead inside this industry anymore. And the citizens are conniving with this situation. It's a democracy, after all. The government of the people for the people. The government just reflects the quality and character of the country's citizens.

Billionaire CEO's have literally used their lives to enrich themselves, not to serve people, which government leaders are supposed to do.
So why wouldn't they use the same government that helped enriched them, to enrich them even more. Or would you see them somehow changing their positions and taxing themselves more, because of benefit of the country infra?

No. They are obviously looking for more profitable government contracts and benefits.

Or which of these proposed cuts are planned for the interest of the citizens?



Trump, who was supposed to be so much man of the peace wouldn't cut anything from the army, except the injured veterans.
I am not an expert, but honestly this just seems like they don't like trump, because common sense would say that one wouldn't cut from a group with ptsd that has strongest connections to best snipers. But what do i know.

apart from the individual difference that plays it role in how one views the responsibility of leadership, the rich or the billionaire are less likely to use his position as a medium of embezzling funds and so the issue he might face will be his ability to make policies that will affect the different segment of the society he governs. there are wealthy leaders that governs better than the average one that is looking for both power and wealth, there are also wealthy leaders that use the position that have gotten to make themselves more wealthy and in the process become negligence on the role of leading the people effectively.

for the like of trump, getting close to the corridor of power is just a means of being involved in certain policy making that has the tendency of affecting him positively. the common citizen might not really benefit from his leadership since that is not the reason why he got into position of power. every leader has his own ambition and reason why he decides to take up such responsibility and regardless of whether they are millionaire or billionaire, they will focus more on what they saw that gave them the thought of seeking that position.

good leaders are not made due to ones financial status, it is generally a product of having a good heart that is really intentional about helping in solving the probkem of the peopole he leads.

Millionaires and billionaires don't necessarily make good leaders, good leadership is born out of a character and the desire to serve the public. It means that people who are not rich can make good leaders, it is the desire to serve the public that matters. Although I want to believe that very rich people can make better leaders because of their experience in managing their wealths, they can better manage in leadership positions than people who don't have any experience in wealth management.

 Problem is that most moneybags are very greedy and selfish, they only care about enriching themselves with any opportunity that they get. Most of them don't care about the ordinary citizens, they'll go into leadership positions to increase their wealths. So good leadership is about choosing people with proven intergrity and strong character, not whether they've attained the status of millionaires and billionaires.

People don't change, they just manifest their true identity. They just needed an opportunity to show their true colours.

Yes, money can control some people. A poor man might get into leadership and steal, while a rich man might steal more due to greed. A good leader finds comfort in their integrity and honesty.

Hillary, being rich, raises the question and pointing fingers is funny.  We should look beyond people's wealth and focus on their personality and choices. A good leader makes honest choices and tries their best. Nobody is perfect, but when you try, people notice.

So, being a good leader depends on the person's values, upbringing, and character. Rich or poor, a good person is a good person, and a bad person is a bad person. No matter how hard a bad person tries to fake it, their true nature will eventually be revealed.

There are tons of leaders who had integrity and high reputation before they got into office and the moment they got sworn in everything changed. The even forget their mandate, lose interest in the promises made to the masses before they got sworn in and even change the structure of events so it suits their selfish interests.

Politics is a game of interest, it's either the politician has the interest of the people at heart or is after the interest of a group or sector or possibly after a personal interest. I doubt anyone comes into power without their predefined intentions although in most cases circumstances makes most of them change during their service year.

Hillary Clinton is probably just still annoyed that the Democrats lost the election. She’s going to have to accept it & then maybe or maybe not be a part of Democrats campaign for the next election. Biden did an awful job so they were never going to win with Harris as their nomination. They need to regroup & try again next time. The cheap shots aren’t going to help them though.

The amount of money someone owns might not determine his approach towards leadership. I have seen rich leaders who failed as leaders because they don't have the main qualities of good leaders.

Let me explain my position with example. My country voted for a rich politician to become president because they believed that he wouldn't steal from government coffers since he was rich. He ended up becoming the most corrupt president.

We have also had some leaders who were poor before they became leaders. We thought that they would be better leaders since they understood what the common man faced. But they also ended up becoming thieves since they saw it as a golden oppurtunty to get rich fast.

My definition of good leadership is integrity and empathy. And qualities have nothing to do with how much you have.

Aside from why you're reading Hillary's posts LOL, if you do read then you should actually read. All of those people are listed with their future government positions. "Co-chair of DOGE" refers to Elon's nomination as the co-chair of Department of Government Efficiency.

As for billionaires being good leaders, just look at this forum. Full of dumbass spammers posting dumb shit. They're not billionaires by any stretch but a perfect illustration how even a little bit of chance to make an extra buck screws people up.

I stumbled on this infographic on one of the Hillary Clinton's verified account. She listed the executives or anticipated executives of Donald Trump and their purported net worth and wrote "The Executive of Billionaires". Even if she decided not to give someone like Elon Musk the title of CEO X, Tesla or any of his companies and decided to call him a co-owner of doge coin, which looks controversial. Do you think that billionaire executives can't make good leaders, like they can't feel the pains of the common people?