&gt; And you&#x27;re saying this is a bad thing<p>Where did I say that?<p>I&#x27;m not the cynic you seem to whom you seem to be responding; I believe that the internet age will empower nonviolence from non-state actors as well as an end to the violence of government.<p>Although we may have needed government to stifle private violence in the past, I don&#x27;t think we do any longer.<p>&gt; the people staffing the bureaucracies and agencies don&#x27;t have their (non-existent) bonus tied to how hard they fucked a customer over.<p>For most reasonable definitions of &quot;bonus&quot; for a bureaucrat, I think that this statement is false.  Oliver North and John Yoo is not in prison.  Hillary Clinton is running for President.  These people all received bonuses for wrecking havoc on a level about which no private entity can dream.