6/24 Max Weber: Politics as a Vocation

The leadership of a state or of a party by men who (in the economic sense of the word) live exclusively for politics and not off politics means necessarily a ‘plutocratic’ [rule of the wealthy, after the Roman god of wealth and the underworld, Pluto—Prof.] recruitment of the leading political strata. To be sure, this does not mean that such plutocratic leadership signifies at the same time that the politically dominant strata will not also seek to live ‘off’ politics, and hence that the dominant stratum will not usually exploit their political domination in their own economic 

Weber's is trying to explain that politician who are rich or wealthy are not suppose to live exclusively from politic. He believe that a politician can better do his or her job as a leader without interest from the decisions he makes for the people, instead this is not the case rich leaders are now can never be satisfied .

I thing Weber is right to ascertain degree. He also forget that once you becomes a leader, no matter how wealthy you are the responsibility also increases. When you become a leather it become not only you but family, extended family, friends and those very close to you who help you get the post would all be expecting some king of fanatics faction from you. This will sorely increase the demand for more wealth.