[trowawee]

Right, the current system is 40% government via bureaucracy, 50% government via lobbyists/industry (including the parts of the bureaucracy that have been fully captured by industry), and 10% "the kind of freaks who run for and win public office" (who I think we should treat with reflexive suspicion on principle, even when I nominally agree with them). It's not at all clear to me that bureaucrats + lottery system would be worse, and it seems likely it'd be better.