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Yeah, so nobody's advocating that the government takes over commodity manufacturing, cooking, or for that matter farming. Meanwhile. Energy? And if you claim
by jbooth 16y ago
Yeah, so nobody's advocating that the government takes over commodity manufacturing, cooking, or for that matter farming.
Meanwhile. Energy? And if you claim that the private sector's currently handling that without government help, I'm going to point and laugh for any definition of "handling", "that" and "government help".
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI'm kind of confused. I simply pointed out that most people are already highly engaged in solving problems we have in this country, in response to your suggestion that engagement needs to be increased. So let me be more precise in my question. To what level should we increase our engagement in solving the problems of the country? Should we all engage ourselves 12 hours a day instead of 10, or give up weekends? Or should we simply devote ourselves to poster contests rather than to (for example) making pizza for others to consume?
- jbooth 16y agoYou don't have to step up your engagement at all. But if people out there are interested in a particular topic, even if it's a small-fry topic, a website to encourage them to propose ideas and work together is an enabler -- it's asymmetric in that it can deliver value far in excess of the costs of making a relatively simple website. So it seems pretty worthwhile, especially considering the costs. This is the kind of thing that those of us who voted Obama were looking for.