“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
– Ronald Reagan
Or to quote Murray Rothbard:
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We want schmoes in government. We want people who can’t find the doorknob. Why waste productive people, as well as looting the taxpayer?
Of course, there are exceptions, such as where the government criminalizes competition (um, the military, policing). And today’s sly court-economics is worth less than nothing on the free market, so they do get a few smart people (although their models severely handicap the evil). But the fact that government is not working with the best and brightest in its predations should be a source of some comfort.
This has real-life benefits. Here’s one example.
A bit more private, non-propagandistic education, a bit more predictable, automatic failure, and the lie of government “service” grows ever clearer in the eyes of its victims.
This process is already taking place.