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nine_k on Nov 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens

I wish I lived in the idyllic world which your sentence describes.

It always puzzles me when people presume that governments or public offices act more virtuously, free from vested interests, agendas, prejudices, etc. I would understand it if governments imported their staff from angels. In reality, they have to hire the same human beings that private corporations hire.

ceras on Nov 4, 2013 [–]

I think the idea is that accountability to voters helps keep things in line.

If you're in a situation where you believe a natural monopoly to be inevitable, it's not necessarily flawed reasoning.

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