It's a common flaw of democracies I find. I come from France and live in a soft dictatorship now, Hong Kong (soft because they dont beat us regularly, yet). In

It's a common flaw of democracies I find. I come from France and live in a soft dictatorship now, Hong Kong (soft because they dont beat us regularly, yet). In France, you cannot escape expensive white elephants: the population might even vote for one, like that Airport in the middle of nowhere they wanted to revitalize the dead region. These issues become political eventually with both sides veering to the irrational to defend, or attack, the expensive project. Since we can all vote, we end up balancing left and right, project and no project, cancelling stuff half built, starting others. In dictatorship, the absurdity is different: sometimes, no matter how silly the white elephant (the HK Macau Zuhai bridge is a good exemple: no car can ever get 3 license plates, three driving permits and three driving insurance, so no car can ever drive on it), the politicians will stubbornely see it to completion, gloat in intense glory whatever the cost overrun when it's done, and move on with the project standing there unused. I dont know what the best model is, I only know there cannot be perfection: we cannot always take good public decisions, always stick to them, always be right about the future. We can only fail in absurd waste sometimes.