Representative

As there are 8 billion of us, alone we are divided so we elect those that appeal to us (politicians) and promote those that are the most intelligent of us (professionals). Politicians and professionals are given higher salaries on the basis that they should not want for anything apart from helping the community. Unfortunately, due to an overwhelming consumerist culture perpetuated by advertising piggy backing on new routes of media politicians have been captured by big industry and professionals have been captured by bad science.