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Re: You just can't get quality staff nowadays so be prepared for second best helpings

> It's confusing. But perhaps no more so than monarchies where the "monarch" has little or no power.

Likewise in China: the Premier is nominally top of the tree. But bows & scrapes to the CCP's General Secretary. Likewise, back in the day, both kowtowed to "retired" people who were actually in charge, eg Deng Xiaoping.

Likewise in federal nations, the President/Prime Minister has FAR less power than people nowadays assume/scream. eg America, Australia.

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_{OT Musing: Seems to be trained into the kids now that the PM/President is some sort of ultra superman in terms of powers/capability/etc, a one-stop-shop for responsibility and magic solutions, you can identify and throw ANY problem at them and they can and MUST magically fix it up (mummy) or else they're EVIL, whereas in fact they're almost powerless inside the country.}

_{Certainly in Australia, the teachers @ schools+unis are training the kids to believe this -- I've quite startled some teens and 20yo's by pointing out basic Constitutional separation of powers when they're ranting at the PM re for example the most recent bushfires (the States' responsibility; PM has no power): it flatly contradicted what they've been trained to believe, how they've been trained to think. Been going on for a while too (I was out of the country for 20yrs): 40+ yearolds have the same beliefs/attitudes. Quite disturbing. They've been trained to live in toytown, but their toytown's not real.}