It sounds simple enough when you say it, but when you actually try to do it, it's insanely hard.
You give birth to a kid, and if this kid doesn't cut it, you immediately switch, adopt someone else to raise, then let that adopted one replace your own flesh and blood as the leading figure—this whole process runs against ethics and morality, directly violates the selfish gene in the human body. It's a kind of great enlightenment.
If all those in power under heaven could pull this off, would there be any worry the realm wouldn't prosper?
But the reality is, everyone clearly knows their own kid is just ordinary, yet they refuse to admit their child's mediocrity and still try like mad to push them up into a high position, dreaming they'll inherit their own status and power. In the end they just sit on the toilet and can't shit, bad money drives out good, and as the world keeps "developing," it rots right down to the bone.
"Why does the world keep sliding downhill?"
