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Statist mindset. Why not simply eliminate the private sector to ensure all smart people can't go anywhere but into public service, and get peace and prosperity

• motohagiography 6y ago
  Well, then you'd have the UK in the 70's pre-Thatcher, or now, basically. There is some wisdom to putting dull people in charge of governance tasks as they manage to keep themselves mostly out of the way. Too sharp, and you get sophisticated corruption as a way of life, which is the irony of countries where their cleverest people are in government. Too dull and you get mob rule and petty corruption, a junta with proverbial DMV clerks all the way down. The modern UK 'elf'n'safety state seems to lurch a bit toward the latter, so Bletchley could be a rallying point from a time when ordinary people were indeed capable of extraordinary things.