The idea that a government could benefit sounds weird to me. I think of benefiting as requiring a subjective personal experience. When you fix your car, does y

The idea that a government could benefit sounds weird to me. I think of benefiting as requiring a subjective personal experience. When you fix your car, does your car benefit? When you remodel your house, does your house benefit? In my mind, government functions, and ideally it functions in service of the people.