> Why not radical changes? I think the motivation for radical changes is based on the idea that we are stuck in a "local maxima" (of some "goodness of society"

> Why not radical changes? I think the motivation for radical changes is based on the idea that we are stuck in a "local maxima" (of some "goodness of society" function) that gradual change can only optimize to some limited degree and that large change is required to put us on a different part of the curve that can be maximized to a greater degree. But I've never seen a proposed (or implemented) radical reorganization that I believed would put us on a path some global maxima (or better local maxima). Taken a step further, I don't believe that we are stuck in a local maxima and think we can make significant positive change using gradual reform.