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The thing is, sometimes, centralized decision makers take decisions that are bad because they are too far removed from the consequences of the decisions. For in
by bilbo0s 4y ago
The thing is, sometimes, centralized decision makers take decisions that are bad because they are too far removed from the consequences of the decisions. For instance, decisions on, say, water rights, made by the federal government in the US. The federal and state governments have effectively collaborated to create a slow rolling disaster across the entire west.
(Of course, now I think about it, local and state governments also take terrible decisions. Slavery and Jim Crow spring to mind. So there really is no "good" way to solve the "decision making" problem. I guess you're basically screwed if you have to allow other people to make decisions for you.)
- prottog 4y ago> So there really is no "good" way to solve the "decision making" problem. Insofar as humanity hasn't yet figured out how to make good decisions all the time ;-) that's true. However, I posit that keeping decisions at as low a level as possible lets mistakes be more easily undone by higher levels in the hierarchy; hence Justice Brandeis's laboratories of democracy.
- bilbo0s 4y agoThat might work, for everyone except the slave waiting for the central authority to come liberate them. There really is no way around it, local, state, or federal power have all been shown by history to be guaranteed to screw people over.