> Problem is nobody is offering good alternatives. You can find alternatives, but no politician wants to run experiments proving or disapproving them. They'd r

> Problem is nobody is offering good alternatives. You can find alternatives, but no politician wants to run experiments proving or disapproving them. They'd rather argue them instead. Why not follow the scientific method and run a small experiment on a subsection of a country to see how it pans out? Why not collect the data, review it, and try again if there's enough variables? The reason I suspect we don't see this thinking is (1) politicians, at least in the US, are predominantly wealthy Ivy League Lawyers trained to "solve" problems through arguing - they are not scientists trained to run experiments, and (2) in every political system the folks who rise to power are those who benefit from the current system and therefore have no reason to risk changing it.