Yes , I think those who are sacrificing avoiding an alternative more lucrative career because they believe they could do more good as politicians are the goal . What was interesting the last several elections is that most candidates Obama excluded I think Obama just believed he could do good , and was quickly awoken to the complications of government already had fuckyou money and didn ' t NEED the income of the presidency or the power . They were doing it because they thought they could do it better than the people there now . Romney , Clinton , Bush , Trump they all just thought they could do it better . The $ wasn ' t really the point . All could have lived fine , earned easy money on boards and with speeches , and avoided all this shit . But they wanted to do it because they thought they could do it better . To help people .