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Yeah, look at the chaos that is Switzerland: one of the best life expectancy and education in the world, with so low taxes that rich French move there to pay le
by Iv 10y ago
Yeah, look at the chaos that is Switzerland: one of the best life expectancy and education in the world, with so low taxes that rich French move there to pay less.
- friendlygrammar 10y ago1 success out of how many failures? The people of California are not nearly as intelligent or forward thinking as the people of Switzerland.
- Iv 10y agoWell, Switzerland had centuries of focus on education. But California seems to do OK according to my metrics: higher GDP per capita and life expectancy that the average in USA. What makes you feel California as a failure?
- friendlygrammar 10y agoSwitzerland has had many propositions that would have worked in favor of the majority but were actually voted down. Meanwhile, in California, everyone votes in their self interest without caring or considering the consequences.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoA lot of things that work in the small don't scale.
- Iv 10y agoThis is exactly what the opponents of democracy said during the 18th century, and exactly what China says now "we are too big for democracy". But well, we have a proven implementation at 8 million people. Let's promote it to all countries of that size or smaller then.