> But the people in office need some power, enough to cause problems if they're bad. Otherwise you have the failures of no government: "might makes right", no c

> But the people in office need some power, enough to cause problems if they're bad. Otherwise you have the failures of no government: "might makes right", no coordinated projects, no defense, etc.; or another group (e.g. corporation) becomes the de-facto government. You can prohibit the government from doing things it should never do (e.g. mass surveillance) without prohibiting it from doing things it ought to be doing (e.g. enforcing antitrust laws). The problem is we currently do the opposite: The government is doing mass surveillance but not antitrust enforcement.