I sometimes feel individual opinions do not matter much politically, especially in the Internet, because the world is steered by a small group of wealthy and powerful people. They are the ones who can make change on a large scale. They control the world's economy. Most of us, myself included, are simply trying to make things work well enough to survive.
In my view, the real problem is the lack of both intellectual and moral education. Knowledge alone is not enough. Leaders also need to understand what life feels like at the bottom, because classroom lessons mean little until they are lived.
Those at the top often lack that experience, while those at the bottom often lack access to education. That gap makes good leadership hard to find. By hardship, I mean extreme poverty and limited access to basic necessities, not personal problems like health issues, divorce, or life-threatening events. Hardship from danger or ambition is not the same as survival poverty. Leaders shaped mainly by other struggles can become like predators, pushing through everything in front of them, like hungry lions or angry elephants.
