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He may be setting the bar too high.
The bar is currently underground yet this man is setting high jump world records.
I kind of get it but politicians should be well-paid or only capitalists (people who survive from "passive income") will be able to afford to be in office.
We had a federal Green Party politician who rented a home and gave 50% of his wage to a homeless charity. He said politicians were way over paid.
Apparently, this was so egregious to voters in his electorate, he lost at the next election 2 years ago.
A lot of people don't want to admit it, but NIMBY property owners are just as complicit with inequality. In my country, the same two parties keep getting elected despite nearly twenty years of housing crisis, because their constitutents and half of the country are property owners who don't want rent and property prices to go down. As a matter of fact, rent went up and people got evicted after the parties in power overhauled renters rights.
Free market, individualism and neoliberalism, yo!