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Gatekeeping is the reason we wind up with Harvey Weinsteins and Donald Trumps. People working for the civil government have pretty cushy jobs, it's not too dema
by alexanderstears 9y ago
Gatekeeping is the reason we wind up with Harvey Weinsteins and Donald Trumps. People working for the civil government have pretty cushy jobs, it's not too demanding to ask that they make it so non-connected people can achieve the same outcomes as connected people.
China is China and they can do what they want, but I expect better out of the west.
- an_account 9y agoHow would that work?
- zpallin 9y agoAdaptive regulation, leaner legal code, and regularly scheduled trust busting.
- alexanderstears 9y agoI think busting public sector unions would be a good start, making the public employees at-will would be even better. And citizens should have a feedback mechanism - surly DMV clerks and permit granters who don't follow up should hit the streets. We have to incentivize service much more than we currently are.
- tertius 9y ago> it's not too demanding to ask You're saying that people should give up power by themselves. This is rare. Democracy works better.
- alexanderstears 9y agoEither they give it up or they can get a new job. We have a lot more government than we need and we get a lot less than we pay for.
- dalbasal 9y agoI'm all for it if someone has a good way of going about making it happen. But let's play fair... We can't appeal to the western tradition of societal fairness of that kind. It hasn't existed. It's fair enough to want it to become a part of it, but it has to be invented first.