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Is there a well functioning large country that doesn't effectively govern this way? The US isn't well functioning its just rich

• Ajedi32 2y ago
  I think most democratic nations have a similar principle of separation of powers, so... almost all of them? The US is rich because it's well functioning.
  • hakfoo 2y ago
    The US is rich for many reasons that have little to do with being well governed. * The country was launched on most of a century of essentially "free" land grabs-- limited pushback from native civilizations. buying cheap from distressed foreign powers (Louisiana), the main wars of conquest being insignificant squabbles with Mexico over trifles. * Said land was also compelling-- you weren't fighting the environment to extract value the way you would be in Siberia. * After 1865, no significant nation-scale conflict on the territory itself to blow down existing investments. * This created an opportunity for bulk immigration-- first with Homestead Act style programmes and then because the American economy was compelling enough to be a pull by itself. A high immigrant population has a unique "opt-in" demographics-- a situation that self-selects for entrepeneurialism. None of this required wildly competent government. George Washington could have chosen to be a king, a religious caliph, or a protosocialist planning enthusiast, and the deck would have still held almost all the same cards.
  • michaelmrose 2y ago
    Name one and detail how the administrative state differs
• deleted 2y ago
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