Re: aid workers; I agree that they don&#x27;t seem very selfish, but we might simply be hitting the bottom of the power continuum - because they know that they couldn&#x27;t  succeed&#x2F;gain influence in any other endeavour, they opt at least for good feelings (that one gets when one is altruistic&#x2F;ethical); or as you said, they benefit in other ways. I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s a bad thing - there are definitely worse ways to satisfy one&#x27;s emotional needs; just that it doesn&#x27;t mean they wouldn&#x27;t fuck people over if given a chance.<p>Re: clergy - what is this, I can&#x27;t even... I guess this simply wasn&#x27;t the best example, but I can&#x27;t even begin to consider members&#x2F;representatives of one of the most corrupt, deceitful, greediest institutions in the past 2000 years - the longest-running scam - to be anywhere near selfless.<p>Re: economists - I&#x27;m afraid my opinion of them weights heavily towards them being completely delusional; economics is such a vague &quot;science&quot; and everything is completely unprovable, so having <i>a</i> theory (which isn&#x27;t correct - no theory is) is infinitely more valuable than being intellectually honest and admitting that you basically know nothing. This is apparent both in theorists (academia encourages this), as with practitioners (LTCM: win Nobel =&gt; crash the market; or the past few presidents of US FED - each &quot;fixing&quot; the market only to make it crash even harder). Sure, they might be well-meaning, but so were middle-age &quot;doctors&quot; who made leeches suck their patients blood...