World Leaders of Rationalia

[Sean Hayden]

What are your qualifications? Why do you wake up every morning certain that you know best how the world ought to be?

[Animavore]

I don't have qualifications. Rather, I would listen to those that do and fill my board full of people best suited to the role. I would basically run an internal, governmental meritocracy. I'd have climate scientists running the EPA. Physicists running the Irish branch of the ESA. Economists running the economy. And highly qualified educators running the education system.

What I definitely would NOT do is put people into positions that are diametrically opposed to and hell-bent on running institutions they are appointed to into the ground for ideological or corporate reasons. Because that would be the height of stupidity.

[Strontium Dog]

I am always right, which I feel would give me a distinct advantage when deciding the correct path to navigate.

[Animavore]

Trump? Is that you?

[Rum]

I doubt every opinion I hold strongly. I think that would make me a good leader. I also think it would make it impossible for me to make decisions!

[Svartalf]

I'm a wise and knowledgeable philosopher kings, and when I'm over my head, I'm wise enough to ask experts to help me understand my plight.

[PsychoSerenity]

I've always been good at strategy games. Particularly if I can run the world with a mouse and keyboard.

[laklak]

I'd just get up in the morning and decide what I wanted to do that day. Fuck 'em, I'm the Emperor.

[JimC]

I am a retired maths and physics teacher.

That should be enough to make me a superb Supreme Galactic Overlord.

[NineBerry]

I'm German.

[JimC]

OK, so that's an automatic disqualification...

[Hermit]

I am a retired maths and physics teacher.

That should be enough to make me a superb Supreme Galactic Overlord.

No matter how many years you have taught maths for, you have insufficient divisions to become a Galactic Overlord, let alone a supreme one. Count your lucky stars that your missus permits you to be the Supreme Galactic Overlord in terms of deciding what cardigan to wear. I assume she does let you choose.

Having been dropped on my head from change commode height by my then five year old sister when I was about three months old I am better qualified for the rôle of Worst Leader of Rationalia than any other forum member.

[pErvinalia]

Economists running the economy.

They might be part of my team, but not the only people running the economy. The economy is in service to the social goals of a society. We need people who understand the broader social impact of economic (and all) policies.

I'd save all the worry about who to select to run what. I'd just run everything. You damn well know I'm qualified, Hayden!

[pErvinalia]

OK, so that's an automatic disqualification...

[Brian Peacock]

I'm a stable genius and nobody has better words than me, therefore I should be the top banana in the biscuit barrel.