> It seems silly that a small team of government hired employees would know better than tens of thousands of Google, Amazon or Facebook experts.
Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the government with recommendations that favor them. The idea of the government office of experts is to help make decisions that are objectively in the best interests of the people, not the corporations that are going to be affected by those decisions.
I work for a government office that, fortunately, is not hated by Republicans because it supports the military. But in this office our job is to ensure that private companies are giving the government good value and not feeding us a bunch of crap. I see the kind of shoddy workmanship they try to sneak past us all the time.
Is the libertarian perspective really that the government should just de facto trust all private companies and not try to provide oversight?
> Do you personally believe the Government can do a better job than the people?
> Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the government with recommendations that favor them.
Do you have a factual basis for this claim? To me it seems like a form of projection that is common among right-of-center people. It's no wonder they want smaller government.
I'm not right of center and I don't want smaller government. The fact that employees of corporations will provide the government with recommendations that are favorable for those corporations is exactly why I think the government needs a technology office to advocate on its own behalf.
Precisely. And the government should have a group with the proper qualifications to judge the merits of the advocacy of these other companies and advocate on the government's and people's behalf.
When considering additional regulations, the weight of biased political workers should have zero weight. Advocacy is most often a defensive action against business killing overreach.
Tell me which ones would be favored for hiring and retention - experts which provide what they want presented or ones which present inconvenient facts?
Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide the government with objective recommendations, they're going to provide the government with recommendations that favor them. The idea of the government office of experts is to help make decisions that are objectively in the best interests of the people, not the corporations that are going to be affected by those decisions.
I work for a government office that, fortunately, is not hated by Republicans because it supports the military. But in this office our job is to ensure that private companies are giving the government good value and not feeding us a bunch of crap. I see the kind of shoddy workmanship they try to sneak past us all the time.
Is the libertarian perspective really that the government should just de facto trust all private companies and not try to provide oversight?
> Do you personally believe the Government can do a better job than the people?
The government is made up of people too.