Nearly everyone complains about capitalism's defects, or market failures. In fact, those are social failures, not specifically market failures, which show up when many rational individual actions create a social situation that displeases everyone. This means that government dirigisme -- state direction or displacement of the market -- cannot be a remedy because who do you think staffs the government and how do they get there? A big difference between the two systems -- market and state -- is that while the market diminishes social defects, the government magnifies them.
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I've thought about this topic. It's easy for people to see the Government or the State as an entity, as a being, and forget there are people there. I forget it all the time!
I wonder if this also happens to them. Do the staffers of government institutions see themselves as mere cells of the Leviathan? Do they foreget they are also individual human beings?