I think its a distortion that results of a good and natural form of organization. If we think of the beginning of a small community most of the people will have their jobs, but we need a group of people to take care of the community infrastructure, garbage, in a small community you could show your disagreement and this people could be replaced with other very fast. As things scale to country level, no one knows each other there is no accountability, you can't easily apply to that position ans can't replace them easily or fast, so with scale we basically loose all control.