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> If people in America just stopped to look around at how other countries do things they'd be doubly as well run. Most parts of Europe, Japan, Canada, and many
by core-questions 8y ago
> If people in America just stopped to look around at how other countries do things they'd be doubly as well run. Most parts of Europe, Japan, Canada, and many other places are well run and have a great deal of governmental involvement.
One big problem with this approach is that it basically pretends that the American citizenry is interchangeable with those of the countries you mentioned. It's not. Identity politics problems, legacies of slavery and of the colonial / revolutionary mindset are still big issues.
The people of Detroit and of Baltimore and of other ruined American cities are not the same as the people of Norway or of Japan. The solutions that work in high-intelligence, high-trust, coherent communities with strong traditions of work ethic won't work in every environment.
You want to use PHP as a metaphor? I'll use NFSv3/NIS. They're simple to run and work great on a small network where you trust everyone completely. The moment there's a malicious party at work they become hopeless and you need to either put in incredible amounts of work to try to lock them down, or switch to a much more restrictive, secure-by-default option.
- romwell 8y ago>Metaphor >small network The population of the EU is 741.4 million, the area is 1,707,642 sq miles. There are quite a few things that are prevalent in the EU, and are nonexistent in the US (public healthcare and higher education, for starters; throw public transportation into the mix, and have a party). Don't pretend the EU is Norway.
- sshine 8y agoNorway isn't even in the EU.
- space_fountain 8y agoI'm not sure if that's what they meant, but regardless. Remember that there are plenty of places in the EU where things aren't going particular well. I also remember online lots of grandstanding about the US's questionable policies around imigrants as compared to Europe. I haven't really heard them in a bit.
- whack 8y ago> Identity politics problems, legacies of slavery and of the colonial / revolutionary mindset are still big issues. > The people of Detroit and of Baltimore ... are not the same as the people of Norway or of Japan. > The solutions that work in high-intelligence, high-trust, coherent communities with strong traditions of work ethic won't work in every environment. I've seen Donald Trump make more subtle references to Blacks and Latinos.
- celticninja 8y agoBut the same could be said of the US, people of Detroit are not the same as the people from eg. Vermont.