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The best discoveries of these startups, like in any industry, will be copied by the market leaders — the countries of today. That seems to be patently false. I
by afshin 16y ago
The best discoveries of these startups, like in any industry, will be copied by the market leaders — the countries of today.
That seems to be patently false. If better ways of governance really were infectious, governments would be roughly converging in their policies. At the very least, for example, similar governments (let's say western democracies) might all have universal healthcare.
- il 16y agoWith the exception of the US, don't they?
- afshin 16y agoYes, they do. But that's quite an exception.
- glenra 16y agoWhy assume universal healthcare is a clearly better way of governance? Leaving aside the question of whether it's "better", I'm also not sure it qualifies as a "way of governance". It's a feature some countries choose to implement in part due to their "way of governance". Arguing over whether some country should implement a feature like "universal health care" is arguing at the policy level; Seasteading is operating at one or two meta-levels higher than that.