It has nothing to do with "government", except I suppose that it is "of the people" and the people, in aggregate, are "dumb" (actually: people know about the do

It has nothing to do with "government", except I suppose that it is "of the people" and the people, in aggregate, are "dumb" (actually: people know about the domains that matter to them, and not others). That being said: almost every day at least one meeting causes me to wonder just how much of the GDP is lost in these teleconference handshake failures. That's something I'd like to see an economics paper on.