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It's a much broader question, and much more advisory. Why do we not routinely say to people in adtech that there is a specific need for better coordination in l

It's a much broader question, and much more advisory. Why do we not routinely say to people in adtech that there is a specific need for better coordination in local government? Not generally, but pointing out a specific county where that county government is visibly carrying out a specific beneficial task inefficiently? We often feel our jobs aren't very important. Also we complain about things not getting done. My question is why we, as a community, do not specifically match individuals' complaints about their jobs' bullshit to specific needs we know of?

giantg2 6y ago
Because of authority and consensus issues. Even in politics, you tend to have a consensus on what the desired end-state is (not on all subjects), but the question is how to best achieve that end-state, and many of the suggestions require the authority of the government to pass a new law. In theory, the role of government is to promote the will of the people, similar to the way you are describing - those unhappy people should be contacting their representatives and organizing their community. Take for example school safety. There are a number of suggestions about this topic, but we'll take the two big ones. One side wants armed guards in schools. Another side wants to remove armed guards from schools and create new gun control laws (specifics of the suggested laws vary). The goal of both sides is to make schools safer, but they have opposing views on how to do that. This is also an issue that can't be solved without government authority (passing gun control laws or allowing armed guards in schools).