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fasteddie31003 | 1 year ago

I have no problem with successful people running our government. I'm dealing with people in my local government right now and they clearly are not in the PayPal Mafia. I think government was their fallback option and they are some of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with.

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mingus88|1 year ago

I have no problem with well-meaning, but dumb people in local government jobs.

I actually have quite a large problem with successful and intelligent people taking government jobs in bad faith for the expressed purpose of ruining it for their benefit.

gruez|1 year ago

>I have no problem with well-meaning, but dumb people in local government jobs.

Really? Surely you can see the issue when those "well-meaning, but dumb people" start instituting dumb policies that are counterproductive? Or did you mean to say that it was preferable to smart people with bad intentions?

djaouen|1 year ago

You are missing a crucial element. Good rules must be competent AND not evil.