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Looking from outside, the ability to act together as a society to achieve a socially desirable outcome seems to slipping in the West. There's a point where the
by sfifs 6y ago
Looking from outside, the ability to act together as a society to achieve a socially desirable outcome seems to slipping in the West. There's a point where the balance in society between duties and entitlements seems to have flipped.
- Mirioron 6y agoThe issue seems to be scale. Governments aren't willing to take on large scale projects, because they're hard and long. They want to do (new) things that are easy with a short term return on investment. Thinking about it, it feels a bit like a modern company. Instead of managers wanting to show that they did something good to get a raise, instead we have politicians that try to show that they did something good to get reelected.
- haram_masala 6y agoThis is an unfortunate consequence of an increasingly diverse and multicultural society. Multiculturalism decreases trust in a community and as such corrodes social capital.
- mikepurvis 6y agoPlenty of places in Europe are just as diverse as the US and still manage to come together and collectively fund important civil and social priorities. Maybe you're just trolling; I can't really tell.
- rubber_duck 6y ago>Plenty of places in Europe are just as diverse as the US and still manage to come together and collectively fund important civil and social priorities. Mind naming some ? Europe is relatively homogeneous ethnically and racially compared to the US. The exception could be largest metropolitan areas, but even there I'd say US is more heterogeneous. Not saying anything in support of arguments related to this just saying I don't know what plenty of places you'd compare to US.
- mikepurvis 6y agoThis seems like a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et... Spain is the obvious one that stands out.
- rubber_duck 6y agoSpain is a pretty terrible example of "great public cooperation between different groups" - do you know anything about it's history or the situation with Basque ? Also it's not really a good example of efficient public projects or a well functioning state compared more developed EU countries or the US.