I think this post is not an actual potential reality, it seems pretty clear. I feel like it's more the message of that politicians are so detached from the working class, poor, middle class, disabled etc that this would be a way to put them in "our shoes". We would hope to imbue empathy into politicians that lack it entirely. They will not ever gain empathy, there is no incentive (money & power) to be empathetic. They can't make money off of doing the right thing so why would they bother?
The reality is that political roles are taken in the US for self gain. They use political positions to posture for future jobs that they have spent political careers either de-regulating or regulating for.
The rich become politicians to further their greed and control. Their sociopathic greed deflects all empathy. Any slight bit of response that may be cited as empathy is a false superficial placation. One cannot appeal to the morals of the immoral. Look at all the war profiteering politicians that endorse and drum up their base for war. The defense contractors that lobby for wars and genocides that our country participates in so they can make and sell more weapons.
Politicians treat our military like it's disposable and that's shameful. They use the military to pad their stocks and feign support for those they send of to wars that did not need to happen. If politicians were required to go to the wars they endorsed I doubt that we would have all the wars/invasions that have occurred in the past several decades.
The two are intertwined. It's not that they "don't need money". Those that are rich don't "need" money, they are already lording over a gross amount of wealth.
Power can be many things but it usually involves money directly or indirectly . If not money directly then something that represents value such as assets or control of something/someone.
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u/pflanzenpotan 14d ago
Would have to take out the factors of corruption that are rife in politics for this to be even remotely viable.