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>The thing I see about the US is that it seems to be uniquely bad at actually fixing problems. Yeah, this is the part I'm trying to understand. There is lobbyi

>The thing I see about the US is that it seems to be uniquely bad at actually fixing problems. Yeah, this is the part I'm trying to understand. There is lobbying/corruption, but that can't be the whole story. Perhaps culturally and historically, the US has been a prosperous high-trust society that did not have to worry too much about people skimming a percentage off the top for providing a service. And over time, that has ballooned into the state we are in now. The other thing I see is that the executive branch of the government is egregiously bad at implementing any sane designs. There is soviet era levels of dysfunction in the federal government when it comes to employment based immigration.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>Perhaps culturally and historically, the US has been a prosperous high-trust society that did not have to worry too much about people skimming a percentage off the top for providing a service. When was the US ever a high-trust society? I don't think it ever was in my lifetime (and I'm not young). I feel like the US sees itself as a high-trust society (or a former one, not so long ago), but the reality is quite different. I'd say, at best, the US was a medium-trust society, with highly variable levels of corruption by locality, and is getting steadily worse.