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I love how you can think about any of these ideas in a really basic way like a 5 year old and you'll know intuitively that it'll all fail, particularly if you i
by thomastraum 11mo ago
I love how you can think about any of these ideas in a really basic way like a 5 year old and you'll know intuitively that it'll all fail, particularly if you invert it:
for example:
- bureaucracy creates less bureaucracy
- price controls create more supply
- adding more rules creates more freedom
- government is good at understanding technology
- the more people you have the better your decisions will be
- the further someone is from a problem, the better they can solve it
etc
- earthnail 11mo agoGenerally agree, except for point three. - adding more rules creates more freedom. Imagine the US without a constitution. It’d be madness. In a lawless country, people would be less free to do things they actually want to do because they’re so occupied with just surviving.
- lunias 11mo agoRules are necessary, but ideally you'd strive for the minimum set that produces the desired outcome w/ the least side-effects.
- earthnail 11mo agoTotally agree. But parent‘s point was formulated as such that rules are generally bad, and I wanted to point out that some rules are necessary, and sometimes you may even need to add some (and obv sometimes also remove some).
- thrance 11mo agoLet me introduce you to the concept of "Negative Liberty": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty I quite like not having my personal data stolen by foreign megacorps for nefarious purposes. In that, I am freer than Americans thanks to Europeans regulations.