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Everybody wants small gov, until they don't.

• xxpor 5y ago
  This is why I think big vs little government is really missing the forest for the trees in a lot of contexts (unless your overall goal is to minimize taxes and regulations at all costs). It's really a debate about the nature of bureaucracy. Process vs nimble. You can organize things to promote either, depending on your actual goals. Unfortunately small government activists have recognized this and have enacted policies that promote incompetence as much as possible. "Good enough for government work" is a choice, not an inevitability.
  • herodoturtle 5y ago
    I wonder if there's a third option, a decentralized government of small nodes, which can orchestrate their activity to rapidly scale in the need of large resource projects.
    • smichel17 5y ago
      I think we tried that once, "in order to form a more perfect union".