Government control?

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The only thing worse would be all of the same in the hands of the common man.[/COLOR]

But governments are made up of those same people; perhaps more educated, but education certainly doesn't provide common sense or morality. Having wealth may prevent you from becoming like this http://imgur.com/gallery/ubpTG, but while you gain the knowledge and skills required to not be a total failure at life like those people, you also get an overall air of disconnect with the "common man", you start thinking you are better than them, and eventually, you start thinking, "hey, I'm better than them, I don't have to do what they voted me in to do, I can trick them into thinking I AM doing what they asked", and guess what, they can, because people are dumb as rocks.

It was doomed to failure from the start, just like everything else our civilization has or ever will do.