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From your comment I think you are viewing this as a cultural problem. It’s an optimisation problem of our political system. It’s not that we are not wanting to
by Affric 3y ago
From your comment I think you are viewing this as a cultural problem.
It’s an optimisation problem of our political system. It’s not that we are not wanting to inconvenience people. It’s that people have rights relating to property and our electoral system is set up geographically so benefits that are non-local are externalised in electoral calculus.
Political systems are complex adaptive systems. They exist to perpetuate themselves. Their decisions will be whatever leads to their short term (read the foreseeable future of the humans involved) survival.
This isn’t an indictment of democracy itself but our system could need to be renovated. It is a little pathologically short circuited.
- arcticbull 3y agoI very much agree with this broadly. > It’s that people have rights relating to property and our electoral system is set up geographically so benefits that are non-local are externalised in electoral calculus. For what it's worth, people don't really have the property rights they think they do. Eminent domain was brought in for exactly this kind of purpose decades and decades ago, and used extensively. We've just decided to stop using it.