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It's amazing how many disastrous inefficiencies in today's society started as well-intentioned efforts to help people in need, isn't it?
by quotemstr 9y ago
It's amazing how many disastrous inefficiencies in today's society started as well-intentioned efforts to help people in need, isn't it?
- epistasis 9y agoThe proposition system in California has been proven to be absolutely disastrous. I vote against them all on principle, even though for many of them it's very very very hard for me to convince myself of that princple while in the voting box. When you see something that in one or two sentences seems to support your positions, it's really hard to vote against. However, when I have in theory supported propositions when they pass, I have always regretted the outcomes several years later. Propositions are almost universally poorly written laws. And worse than that, they are even harder to change. At least poorly laws passed by the legislature can be somewhat easily changed by the legislature whenever the legislature is meeting. Propositions have to go through the voters again, and go through the same distortions of public propaganda all over again.