[skummetmaelk]

Good intentions do result in success. Good policies result in success. If you give up and say "government" will never work, then no. Of course it will never work.

Pointing to failed scenarios and saying x failed therefore y will fail is "stupid". You must examine why x failed and make sure you don't include this element when trying to do y. It is an iterative process.

One thing is for sure. If government employees don't have good intentions, the government will be ineffective. Therefore trust in government and willingness to see government as a force for good, willingness to work in a system that does good for its citizens, is imperative to having a good system.

[ttoinou]

  Good intentions do result in success

Then all it needs is people believing it will work so it can work, like magic ! Or Universal Basic Income

  Therefore trust in government 

How citizen trust in government and government employees having good intentions are related ?

[skummetmaelk]

I missed a "not" on the first quote there.

I believe they are related because it is harder for people to develop trust in government if the good intentions of government workers and the governmental system in general is not apparent.

Conversely it is difficult to have a large pool of well intentioned potential governmental employees if a large portion of citizens have been brought up to think that the government is evil. These citizens are much more likely to try to exploit government positions than to treat them with the responsibility for the people that they require.