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>if the organization is dysfunctional, it won't be beaten by a better one, and (2) it has little incentive to improve.

Source? Ever heard of elections? Sounds like a braindead libertarian software developer take on a topic you have no idea about to me

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Elections replaces the government, not the state. Most people working at the state stays regardless who wins. Elections is like changing the CEO, it doesn't mean replacing the company.

Elections can replace a government.

They can't control each of the individual organizations within it.

If the Pest Control Section of the Department of Agriculture has a badly run subsection, the single vote of each voter can't independently influence it and the thousands of other organizations within the state.

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