Beware: The Government Is People
Who else?
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.
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?