These two factors - imperfect knowledge and expensive information - lead us to the disturbing but inescapable conclusion that although a democratic government would do its citizens' will if it could, it cannot because 1) the citizens do not know what they want (i.e. what would maximize their own interests), and 2) the politicians couldn't find out what the citizens wanted even if they did know. Let us examine this statement point by point.
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