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by bluGill 40 days ago
Not to take away from your point, but the revolving door is also good because the experts should be the ones who make the rules. There are too many details about every niche that smart non-experts will get wrong and so we need experts.

Good luck reconciling these two conflicting points.

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One of our government agencies has expert panels where people from the field and in different lecels of administration get consulted in group about legislativ or procedural issues.They call it round tables and they get organised about three times a year on different fields of expertise.

After these round tables the reports go to the cabinets and eventually the refined versions will be presented before the MP. They make new legislation bases on a structural review of procedures and law and that is how a government could operate without hiring expensive experts. You already have the experts on board, let them participate.

I don't think that's hard to reconcile - that only involves people in industry moving to government, which is far less problematic.
What happens after the job they were hired to do is complete?
If you want to move from industry to public political power, that should be a one way street.
They're experts. There is no end to efficiency.