Is It Worth It to Be President of the Universe?

Douglas Adams had the idea of Zayfod Bewabrocks as president of the universe. He said anyone who wants to be president is automatically disqualified from doing it. This refers to an idea called self-selection bias which is basically that politics is comprised of people who say yes I want to be that person so they put themselves forward whereas other people don't. Now who do you end up elevating? Well if you're an ordinary decent person who just wants to sort of help the community or do their bit to make society a bit better. You weigh that up on one side the sort of altruistic service oriented side of things and on the other side you think about the