Very relevant to another article on HN today, "Why we can't build": "The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather th

Very relevant to another article on HN today, "Why we can't build": "The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it. They’ve become, in political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s term, “vetocracies,” in which too many actors have veto rights over what gets built. That’s true in the federal government. It’s true in state and local governments. It’s even true in the private sector."