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The population of Denmark is lower than the Bay Area. Some things are just easier with a small population and land area and relatively homogenous population.
by brc 11y ago
The population of Denmark is lower than the Bay Area. Some things are just easier with a small population and land area and relatively homogenous population.
- surfmike 11y agoI understand why a homogenous population helps - more social cohesion, etc. But why does a smaller population and land area make any difference?
- JakeAl 11y agoThe same reason smaller teams can accomplish things that large teams can't. The solutions don't scale. Corruption, fraud, abuse, bureacracy and enforcing regulation gets in the way of actually addressing or better yet SOLVING the problem. This is why large companies cannot innovate but instead buy small companies that do and that government does not actually solve problems.
- surfmike 11y agoMaybe. I'm not sure the analogy to companies holds, however. Small companies are innovative since they are growing, usually out of startups -- there really isn't an analogy of a "startup" for governments. At the very least, Denmark doesn't match that description. BTW I was curious and looked at list of US states by human development index. There's no obvious correlation between size of a state and its ranking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_American_Human_Development_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_America...
- brc 11y agoThe distance issues becomes a problem. What works for the Bay Area doesn't work for North East. It's both because all politics and business is regional, and because information flows are affected by distance.