11-06-2016, 11:14 AM
The second major Fallacy of Progressivism is philosophical. We have been taught for the last 100 years that somehow, a group of disinterested experts in the halls of government will plan our lives more efficiently than we, ourselves, can. The only problem with this is that there is NO SUCH THING as a disinterested expert. Real experts devote their lives and careers to the pursuit of developing the skills, relationships, and experience to truly have expertise in a sector of the economy. Those people are rarely ensnared by public life. Usually, what you wind up is a guy with a degree in public policy or political science that has worked in the public sector for their entire lives. So what you have are a bunch of oligarchs cranking out 70 new regulations every day to control sections of industry they have never worked in! Worse still, the vast majority of these people put in place because they aren't TAINTED by the private sector wind up trying to monetize their time in public life by looking to a career of lobbying, consulting or managing with the very companies that they were put in place to regulate. So when we set aside the constitutional role of the executive in favor of a centrally planned economy based on "disinterested experts" we wind up with an all powerful bureaucracy controlled by people who, in reality, do have private sector ambition beyond their time in public service, AND have a general level of ignorance that makes them relative slaves to certain powerful special interests. Hello housing crisis. There is a reason that centrally planned economies always FAIL.