[Jensson]

> Law is probably one field where one can hop in and out easily, so it's why we have so many lawyers go into politics

Only in USA, the rest of the world doesn't see lawyers flock to politics. It seems more like there is some corruption that makes lawyers mingle so much with politicians and they scratch each others backs, otherwise why would it be so much more lawyers in politics in USA than any other country?

People hate lawyers, they wouldn't vote on them if they didn't have to, but when the parties mostly show you lawyers to vote for then people don't have much of a choice. In the rest of the world were they do have that choice lawyers doesn't get voted in that much.

[throw0101c]

> Only in USA, the rest of the world doesn't see lawyers flock to politics.

Some data that suggests otherwise:

> On the question of what to study, there’s also a clear answer: nearly a third of both the officials and MEPs hold a law degree at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Non-science subjects such as business, humanities, political science and humanities are all prominent in the data with just 5 percent of MEPs and 2 percent of officials having a medical or health sciences qualification (Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is one of the few exceptions, having trained as a medical doctor and taken a master’s degree in public health.)

* https://www.politico.eu/article/what-to-study-to-join-the-eu...

Would be interested in a global survey on this: does it differ any (if at all) for various regions/countries/cultures around the world.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is one of the few exceptions, having trained as a medical doctor and taken a master’s degree in public health

That's the worst example one could pick. Ursula comes from a family of influential EU politicians and has been groomed since childhood to take high ranking jobs in politics. It's doesn't matter what her education is when she's the EU equivalent of CCP royalty. That woman hasn't worked a job a day in her life, but spent all her life being a career politician and a regulatory arm of lobbyists and activist.

[throw0101c]

> Ursula comes from a family of influential EU politicians and has been groomed since childhood to take high ranking jobs in politics.

Do we say such things if a dentist encourages their child to become a dentist? Or an MD towards being an MD? An accountant to account? A programmer to a programmer?

> That woman hasn't worked a job a day in her life […]

Being a politician (or in the government bureaucracy) is a job. It is a career. There is domain of knowledge in governance that one must learn to be effective just like there is in any other human endeavour.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Do we say such things if a dentist encourages their child to become a dentist? Or an MD towards being an MD? An accountant to account? A programmer to a programmer?

Depends if meritocracy was involved, which in her case it wasn't, or if your parents use their connections to get/buy you in power.

You're mixing up encouragement with cronyism, which I find in bad faith.

>Being a politician (or in the government bureaucracy) is a job. It is a career. There is domain of knowledge in governance that one must learn to be effective just like there is in any other human endeavour.

The point was that China's leaders have advanced degrees not related to politics, not whether being a politician is a job or not.

[immibis]

It's not lawyers that flock to politics but most politicians have law backgrounds because that's what you need to know to become a politician