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Romanovskaya wrote:

Prince Dmitri: "It is all really quite simple. There are two types of people in the world, catastrophists and cornucopians. Catastrophists are the people who lay awake at night staring at the ceiling worrying about all the nasty things that may happen to them. Generally their natural habitat is on the political left and they believe they, or people of like-mind really should be in charge of absolutely everything and they can make rules and regulations to eliminate risk in life so the world will be a happy and wonderful place. If they are not in charge, and they don't have option of making the rules and regulations to keep the rest of us in line, then they believe the sky will fall, metaphorically speaking of course. The other type of person, a cornucopian are a laissez-faire, life is good, understand that the world is a dangerous place sometimes but you can manage risk through individual responsibility. Unfortunately in your case here in Orange-bourgogne, the current government seems to be made up of the former rather than the latter.

Now as for your question. In a world where states are more akin to service companies, there would be duties left to the state that cannot be solved better and cheaper by private enterprise or by the local communities. In my opinion, only foreign policy, law and order, education and state finances should remain with the state. All the other duties can be fulfilled better and cheaper on the level of local communities or by private enterprise. As for the idea that the people are not smart enough to make their own choices, I think what I said about catastrophists covers that.