 By contrast, in a planned order, even astute and conscientious decisions by men of system are damaging in a particular way. Namely, to the extent that men of system become micro-managers, they are players rather than umpires. If bureaucrats start playing the game—responding to ephemeral events with centralized fine tuning—then even if they play as cleverly as bureaucrats could possibly play, the fact remains that in consequence, the dispersed and tacit knowledge of ordinary buyers and sellers ends up on the sidelines watching. People who would have been job creators become mere spectators, hamstrung by uncertainty, waiting to see what the plan is going to be. Until they know the plan, they have no way to know, or even intelligently guess, something as simple as whether their staff is too small or too large.