>> Of course no policy will ever truly be net positive for 300M+ people. Never mind all of them, one could ask whether some "horse-traded" policies are even a

>> Of course no policy will ever truly be net positive for 300M+ people. Never mind all of them, one could ask whether some "horse-traded" policies are even a net positive for a simple majority? I'm thinking of, for instance, the Common Agricultural Policy. This certainly isn't just an EU issue, or even confined to politics, small groups often seem to wield a disproportionate amount of power. Taleb has commented on this.[0] [0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...