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I don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is basically the answer. In general, politicians tend to be very smart people - you have to be smart to convinc

by sfifs 7y ago

I don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is basically the answer. In general, politicians tend to be very smart people - you have to be smart to convince people to vote for you (or even in dictatorships be your enforcers). However, the economic incentives are by and large not aligned and therefore decisions poor in the long term get taken.

djrobstep 7y ago
The downvotes are for the same reason - critique of capitalism upsets people with ideological affiliation to it. You see it all the time on this forum. You can make narrow economic critique but broad, generalised critique of capitalism is off-limits.
flukus 7y ago
> I don't know why you're getting down-voted. It seems HN has stopped the usual astro-turfing these posts attract and it's been replaced by down votes and flagging. Normally a comment or two is enough to kill the thread.