I rarely agree with public-sector intellectuals like the author but he makes a fair (if anodyne) point that Steve Jobs et. al. do not deserve the respect currently heaped on them.  But then he seems to draw the conclusion because that is so, then government is okay because "Government...may be imperfect but at least they claim to be in the service of the people."  What good is it to claim to be in the service of "the people" when government itself has already been regulatorily captured - between the industries it seeks to regulate, and the massive public-sector make-work bureaucracies in place just so that gov't can be seen to be "doing something" with the massive taxes they take from us.  Not much room left for the individual from either side.