I think that that's wrong, because what gets doesn't have any impact on how well you can do other stuff.

If the other stuff you're doing is designing policy and social structures, then it's not how well you do it, but to what end you are going to do it that's important. A person's vision of the best possible world, the interdependent support systems you hope to encourage, does make some difference when you're talking about politicians, I think. Community, family, trust, "it takes a village", versus every individual for themselves, do what you like on your own time and don't expect anything from one another, are pretty different attitudes, for example. How you live reflects your own expectations and hopes for the way society will develop, to some extent