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by FirmwareBurner 358 days ago
>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.
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throw0101c 358 days ago
> 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.

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FirmwareBurner 358 days ago
>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.

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