in order to get to the top

We can’t look passively for “leaders” to make the world a better place. In order to achieve those positions of power and privilege, you have to have been pretty ruthless, and in order to get to the top, you have to ultimately be serving the interests of those at the top. And the interests of those at the top are not the interests of most of humanity. Most of humanity, regrettably or not, has to fight its own struggles to get its place at the table, and not just be there waiting for a few crumbs.