liberaltarian wrote today at 2:20 AM
Illusory? As in, there exists no instance of a single excellent bureaucrat? No, I don't agree. Odds are that such a person does exist. Rare? Yeah, that's true. But excellent people are rare in the general population, too, simply because excellence is rare by definition. If an organization - any organization, public or private - does not value, reward, and actively select for excellence, then excellence will be rare in that organization. Government is not very different in this regard than private industry.