Possible objection is that this incentivizes people with power to hide from places you officially define as “people with power”. Instead of becoming politicians, they will have their puppets elected as politicians… and the puppets will have to use mass transit and send their kids to state schools… and presumably get a reward that makes it worth all this suffering.
Counter-objection: this still adds another complication for the secret rulers, which may decrease their relative power compered to the non-secret rulers. That is probably good.
Another objection is that if the system works relatively okay, this motivates the rulers to keep it okay. But what if the system is broken in such way that fixing it would take a decade or more? For example, by the time you fix public education, it will be too late for your kids. Then the system would simply disincentivize people who care about their own kids (which doesn’t necessarily imply they care about other kids).
Possible objection is that this incentivizes people with power to hide from places you officially define as “people with power”. Instead of becoming politicians, they will have their puppets elected as politicians… and the puppets will have to use mass transit and send their kids to state schools… and presumably get a reward that makes it worth all this suffering.
Counter-objection: this still adds another complication for the secret rulers, which may decrease their relative power compered to the non-secret rulers. That is probably good.
Another objection is that if the system works relatively okay, this motivates the rulers to keep it okay. But what if the system is broken in such way that fixing it would take a decade or more? For example, by the time you fix public education, it will be too late for your kids. Then the system would simply disincentivize people who care about their own kids (which doesn’t necessarily imply they care about other kids).