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>and they should probably be handled by experts That experiment was tried in Soviet Union. How did that end?

Broken_Hippo 10y ago
Just because something ended badly one place doesn't mean the idea was bad. We have "expert" witnesses, some of whom have very little expertise. That's bad. Being corrupt and getting 'experts' in office or firing 'experts' if they don't provide a politically correct answer? Bad. But it is a lot harder for me to argue that basing healthcare or even health and safety policies on the advice of physicians and scientists is bad. If we are revamping the tax code, it might do us well both to look at how tax code compliance is in different countries at different rates - and also talk to psychiatrists and psycologists to help set it up in a way that gets the most compliance. Talk to poverty experts to see what tax codes could hurt the poor and work on ways to solve that.
jfoutz 10y ago
A few things. First, shoe factories not having enough leather to make quota responding by making tiny shoes is one of the most cunning gaming of metrics i've ever heard of. I think that was brilliant. People in insane situations still have great ideas. Second, I reread my post a couple of times. I missed the collective ownership point. Could you quote the line where i said the workers should control the means of production? Third, the US military is getting tanks they don't want. This is pretty obviously dumb, and a clear example of politicians ignoring experts. Finally, no real deep changes are needed. Look at the EU's handling of toxic materials. If something is super toxic, but not really used by anyone, the regulation is pretty light. If something is slightly toxic and popular, the regulation is light. The dangerous popular stuff is heavily regulated. It's the kind of thoughtful, risk aware policy that's pretty rare in the US.
- burfog 10y ago
  We shouldn't be so sure that "the US military is getting tanks they don't want". It might be true, but the words of people in a military chain of command are controlled from the top. Generals who contradict the president soon find themselves in trouble.

Just because something ended badly one place doesn't mean the idea was bad. We have "expert" witnesses, some of whom have very little expertise. That's bad. Being corrupt and getting 'experts' in office or firing 'experts' if they don't provide a politically correct answer? Bad. But it is a lot harder for me to argue that basing healthcare or even health and safety policies on the advice of physicians and scientists is bad. If we are revamping the tax code, it might do us well both to look at how tax code compliance is in different countries at different rates - and also talk to psychiatrists and psycologists to help set it up in a way that gets the most compliance. Talk to poverty experts to see what tax codes could hurt the poor and work on ways to solve that.

jfoutz 10y ago

A few things. First, shoe factories not having enough leather to make quota responding by making tiny shoes is one of the most cunning gaming of metrics i've ever heard of. I think that was brilliant. People in insane situations still have great ideas. Second, I reread my post a couple of times. I missed the collective ownership point. Could you quote the line where i said the workers should control the means of production? Third, the US military is getting tanks they don't want. This is pretty obviously dumb, and a clear example of politicians ignoring experts. Finally, no real deep changes are needed. Look at the EU's handling of toxic materials. If something is super toxic, but not really used by anyone, the regulation is pretty light. If something is slightly toxic and popular, the regulation is light. The dangerous popular stuff is heavily regulated. It's the kind of thoughtful, risk aware policy that's pretty rare in the US.

burfog 10y ago
We shouldn't be so sure that "the US military is getting tanks they don't want". It might be true, but the words of people in a military chain of command are controlled from the top. Generals who contradict the president soon find themselves in trouble.