I guess it's just another test in the grand experiment of whether our country's firmware is the most successful choice over time. Do people's expressed self-in

I guess it's just another test in the grand experiment of whether our country's firmware is the most successful choice over time. Do people's expressed self-interests (or those guided by some aspect of human nature) being allowed to update the firmware lead to optimum progress of society? On what timescale? Who is to say except on looking back afterwards? Some trees grow quickly and dominate the forest after 15 years. But they fall to the passing storm in favor of the oak which took more time to grow but at first didn't appear so large, but then lasts for hundreds of years.