Ah yes, there's that lack of more than 1 degree of separation you've shown again. You're literally advocating for even more private interest and funding in politics if you advocate for politicians to be paid less. Politicians are already paid far, far less than executive private industry roles. You cant honestly believe that you're going to get a subject matter expert in a political leadership role without paying them well do you? In your own dream world where politicians make nothing, the only people who could afford to be politicians would be people already rich as shit from success in private industry. I guess instead of agreeing with me you're arguing to hire more completely inept non-experts who have been bought and paid for by private industries - the logical outcome of your poorly considered idea.