Makes sense; people who have useful skills should be more successful in status seeking, ceteris paribus.
You won’t get people who are best at given skills, but some combination of high status seeking and good enough skills. In monarchy… you get people who were trained in relevant skills from birth, but maybe they just don’t have the talent, or don’t care. Also, an ambitious politician can also train their kids from birth; the political dynasties do exist in democracies—probably much more than we realize, if we don’t only look at the presidents’ surnames, but consider the “ruling class” in general. (Heck, I just looked into Wikipedia and found that Barack Obama is a relative of George W. Bush. What?!)
Makes sense; people who have useful skills should be more successful in status seeking, ceteris paribus.
You won’t get people who are best at given skills, but some combination of high status seeking and good enough skills. In monarchy… you get people who were trained in relevant skills from birth, but maybe they just don’t have the talent, or don’t care. Also, an ambitious politician can also train their kids from birth; the political dynasties do exist in democracies—probably much more than we realize, if we don’t only look at the presidents’ surnames, but consider the “ruling class” in general. (Heck, I just looked into Wikipedia and found that Barack Obama is a relative of George W. Bush. What?!)