By funding campaigns, lobbying, running think tanks, owning media reaching millions of people, having people of your company sit in government agencies (...) economic power quickly translates to political power.
Intelligence translates into political power, being extremely charismatic translates into political power too. Should we start giving lobotomies to people that are too smart and throwing acid on the faces of people that are too good looking so that they can't exert their political will on others?
