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To fly a plane, you need thousands of hours in the air. Logged. Verified. Tested under pressure before anyone lets you near a commercial flight.

To practice medicine, you spend a decade proving you can do the work — before you're allowed to do the work.

To build a bridge, you need a license. To get the license, you need to prove you know how bridges don't fall.

To run a city, a state, a country — all you need is to convince enough people to check a box next to your name.

That's it.

No proof of the skills. No proof they cared before anyone was watching.

Just enough people convinced.

We figured out how to pick the right person for almost everything.

Except the thing that affects all of it.