Every system of government has its own local optimum for each thing a society does. No system of government has a monopoly on the best local optimums across the

Every system of government has its own local optimum for each thing a society does. No system of government has a monopoly on the best local optimums across the board. Whenever any given state becomes too dogmatic about adhering to one system of government, things will be limited by that system. The ideal is to approach different issues more dynamically by using approaches best fit for each issue. Take space for example (a mix of science and engineering). The Soviets made the first giant leaps because the size of the investments and types of returns (national security, political, national pride, etc.) only made sense at the state level. That scared the US into its own state level program: "...this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth."[0] Once the state level investment cleared enough of the obstacles, profit motive emerged that starts to let private industry take a larger role in advancing the state of the art [1]. This mix has played out exceptionally well is smartphones. It's hard to imagine anything other than private industry profit motive creating or advancing smartphones to where they are today. But without connectivity, smartphones would merely be a feature phone with iPod functionality.[2] It's just as hard to imagine private industry cooperating enough to create the foundation of that connectivity... the internet. The steps of ARPANET -> commercial internet -> smartphone are part of an amazing example of the power of mixing state and industry programs for the parts of the problem they are best at. "Socialism" and "capitalism" working together for an outcome that has transformed how we go about our daily lives. It requires true leadership to make these different approaches fit together. Dogmatic arguments about these kinds of systems makes it even harder to get the next great examples. The best system is the one that finds a way to balance the best of each of the other systems in a way that is good for the population at large. ---- [0] https://www.jfklibrary.org/node/16986 https://www.jfklibrary.org/node/16986 [1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aerospace-and-defense/our-insights/r-and-d-for-space-who-is-actually-funding-it https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aerospace-and-defense/ou... [2] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/147207 https://www.azquotes.com/quote/147207