Re: urlier

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Tomas L. Byrnes to me:

[big snip of irrelevancies]
> Your corny and antiquated trust in your "betters", and the belief that
> government and politics attract only the best and brightest, as opposed
> to a lot of the lazy and corrupt, is what is completely misplaced.

I never said that, and don't believe it.

I think all sectors are about equally capable of attracting, and 
attractive to, such levels of incompetence, greed and corruption, and 
about equally well motivated to (which varies greatly through all 
sectors from time-to-time and for a huge variety of causes), and 
therefore about equally likely to, uncover said incompetence and deal 
with it (appropriately or otherwise).

The naysayers to this tend to fundamentally neglect that the "public 
sector" is, by design _and in practice_ (at least in "more developed" 
regions), much more open to (external) observation and therefore 
readily appears to naïve analysis to harbour more "general 
cluelessness".  Such naïve analysis also tends to significantly neglect 
that the preivate sector is much more heavily motivated _by design_ to 
coverup such incidents if at all possible, thus further tilting the 
apparent "imbalance".

I've worked in both sectors and have many good friends and colleagues 
in both sectors and the view of a skeptic from the inside of either is 
scarcely different (other than the pay rates).



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald



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