Why the clamor for government positions?

THE 12 new senators who will sit in the 19th Congress were proclaimed by the Commission on Elections on May 18. One media outfit reported: "The new batch of legislators will make the Senate a more blatant family affair, with three pairs of relatives occupying a fourth of the total seats: siblings Pia Cayetano and Alan Peter Cayetano, mother-and-son Cynthia Villar and Mark Villar, and [half] siblings JV Ejercito and Jinggoy Estrada."

That is only for the Senate. "More blatant family affairs" are likewise happening in local positions. There are husband-and-wife pairings, mother-and-daughter tandems, and siblings and relatives in almost all fronts. So, why the clamor to hold on to government positions?