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I'm not familiar with that term, but from reading the article the guy doesn't seem to point the finger at capitalism. He is saying big government is more susce
by barmstrong 16y ago
I'm not familiar with that term, but from reading the article the guy doesn't seem to point the finger at capitalism. He is saying big government is more susceptible to this than free market capitalism.
- chrischen2 16y agoI thought he went out of his way to emphasize that it's not necessarily big government that's the problem, since full transparency in government would serve to reduce the problem as "not buying the product" does the same in the private sector.
- Maro 16y agoHundreds of pages of legalese are the de-facto weapon against transparency --- even if you can obtain the documents, it's so boring, timeconsuming and frustrating to read it that it becomes effectively opaque.
- chrischen2 16y agoIt only takes one person to do that to expose it to everyone.
- dejb 16y agoPeople contribute to open source projects - doing work for free that many would consider mundane. Looking for loopholes would be a lot like debugging.