Dr. Myles Munroe said that King Solomon said: "woe to a land where a slave becomes king...." and his interpretation was: "don't allow a poor person to rise to leadership."
At a first listen, and perhaps being a brokeass myself, I was like: 'see academic arrogance; so slaves and poor people got no place in this world, eh?'
But that was before seeing the words 'poor' and 'slave' beyond their literal (financial and material) contexts, to being of principles and mentality: a slave or poverty mentality meaning lack of contentment, and so, an inordinate desire of gain - like, greediness even after so much wealth.
He said such leaders use power for self enrichment rather than empowering others. Relating his discourse to The Gambia's reign of Jammeh, I cannot agree more.... and Rasta said something like that too: catapult a man from the forest to the palace and he'd become the maddest.
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