A Dilbertized company will be punished severely in today's business environment, while one that rewards its employees, serves the public, and stays on top of daily affairs excels and attracts the best people. Today it can offer none of the risk, reward, idealism, and positions of consequence that government seemed to offer during its glory days. Several studies have been conducted on the problem and concluded that the State Department must change its system of recruitment and remuneration. If government were small and unintrusive, as it generally was in the early 19th century, you wouldn't mind if its offices were filled with highly educated people from old families with social prestige. But when the government is bloated and most of its powers illegitimate, and it is trying to run or bomb the world, we are far better off having its offices populated by discards nobody else wants.
Ineffective government is always a blessing, but especially now.
The less government we get for our money, the safer are our freedoms. The actual problem is that the world has changed dramatically from fifty years ago, while the government has not. The central state as we know it is a product of an ideology of central planning that has failed, and an administrative apparatus that is completely outmoded in a world where the market economy is the driving force. Look at the global system of embassies and other State Department offices. As the ultimate brick and mortar institutions, they were created before Instant Messaging, email, and faxes.