I'm saying the "open source system" is broken. With government, we pay taxes and we get public works - regardless of whether or not anyone votes. With corporations, we have commerce transactions, and success or failure is determined by the market (ideally). There is no similarly refined system with open source where "needed" things are done regardless of whether or not they are popular. If someone could just pick and choose which people got a public education, or which streets get paved - why, they would just up and pick their friends and family and their own streets, wouldn't they?