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Is it a problem when a government fails? Is it an ultimate goal to have "good" government that doesn't fail? What if "failed" government is sometimes a feature
by tut-urut-utut 6y ago
Is it a problem when a government fails? Is it an ultimate goal to have "good" government that doesn't fail? What if "failed" government is sometimes a feature and not a bug?
We have some examples of "failed states" where the average people still live better than in many of the states with "good and responsible" government.
Some examples from Europe, which may have been controversial:
- Italy & Greece - big country debt, corrupt government, but average people still own more property ("richer") than people in north European countries like Germany with "better" and "more competent" governments.
- Russia, Belorusia, Serbia - corrupt government that tends to suppress human rights of its citizens, but still during the covid pandemic the restrictions of basic human freedoms were much less than in countries where human rights are most important, without significant impact on the corona casualties.
- ceejayoz 6y agohttps://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975 https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975 > Covid-19: Russia admits to understating deaths by more than two thirds > Russia’s true death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is not about 57 000, as official figures claim, but more than 180 000, the country’s deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, conceded at a press conference. > The figures mean Russia ranks third in the world in terms of deaths from covid-19, behind only the US and Brazil. It would also give Russia the fourth highest per capita death rate, about 1273 deaths per million population, behind only San Marino, Belgium, and Slovenia. Maybe good government matters more than you thought.