Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine a government uses tax payer money to install a bench in the park. This bench has a distinguished businessman’s name brazen

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine a government uses tax payer money to install a bench in the park. This bench has a distinguished businessman’s name brazened on the front of it, and this bench is poorly placed and no one sits in it, providing no utility to society. In this example, the public has every right to be disgruntled, they can call their representatives, media organizations etc., or just talk about the stupidity and incompetence of their government and vote new, equally incompetent, people in their place instead. When a government does something like this, it’s not working right. Imagine the park is owned by a private nonprofit. The business man donates money to the nonprofit to install the bench, the business man gets a dollar for dollar tax deduction on the bench, and the nonprofit rewards him by having his name put on the bench. No one uses the bench and it provides no utility. In either case, the real results for society is the same. The only difference is that for the nonprofit case the system works the way it’s supposed to. In real life what you get is that moneyed elites get a boost in status from their donations. How can you demand demand good behavior from people with no accountability?