You think the internet would be just as efficiently run if the government controlled it without a profit incentive?

I think the left are naive to how lazy people are without the right incentives, and how without a monetary incentive office politics can be ridiculously crippling.

Maybe the HN perspective is driven by the fact that open-source in software engineering has flourished - leading many to think that great things can be built without monetary incentive.

Or perhaps its because they are surrounded by very smart people and start believing that the rest of society operates at the same calibre.

There is enough politics involved inside companies where huge monetary incentives are up for grabs, when you take away this monetary incentive, it becomes insanely political.