[Natsu]

> The saddest truth is perhaps that functionally, we have the leaders we deserve.

The public at large are terrible bosses. We're disengaged and bad at measuring what our employees (leaders) do, so style trumps substance and it's hard for us to tell if any of them have a measurable impact.

We have little ability to get to the truth of what's going on and are deliberately dissuaded from this with huge omnibus bills and whatnot. News has become about narratives instead of substance, with hardly anyone caring to look at the underlying evidence of anything, letting liars get away with so much.

We constantly raise standards with no way of enforcing them. Naturally, cheating is the only way to appear perfect, driving out very good but imperfect people in favor of massive liars who cheat. We're also not good at holding anyone in politics to account. Everyone knows that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself, but only some low level guards will be held to account for it most likely. The general public has no idea what to do and the leaders are too happy to sweep it under the rug.

So you're probably right, we have the leaders we deserve in some sense. The general public makes for terrible bosses, which is probably why too many people work under bad ones.