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Man. I feel in these situations that allowing failure is the best course to enable people to learn from their mistakes. But how do you let a whole country fai
by unityByFreedom 9y ago
Man. I feel in these situations that allowing failure is the best course to enable people to learn from their mistakes.
But how do you let a whole country fail? Particularly when this attitude of preferring dictatorship seems to be growing in many countries. It's concerted, and I don't want that in my part of the world.
- ben_jones 9y agoA good example would be how in the last decade several cities in California were allowed to "fail". IIRC there was an NPR segment on it or something. Anyways it was disastrous, over 50% of all local officials including policemen, fire fighters, teachers, park officials, garbage men, etc., were laid off. And this was in the middle of a functional state. One can only imagine what will happen in Turkey when combined with the refugee problem, sectarian violence in neighboring countries, terrorist organizations in neighboring countries, etc.
- gcr 9y agoDo you have a source for this? I'd love to listen to this but I couldn't find the segment you were talking about.
- ben_jones 9y agoSorry for the goose chase it was actually the book Boomerang by Michael Lewis which goes over the various debt crises of the past decade in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece. It ends with a section talking about the bankruptcy of Vallejo and it talks about the unsustainable pension situation in San Jose. A light, informative, and entertaining read IMO. The numbers I listed are likely inaccurate and came from my 2+ yr old memory of reading the book.