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> governance has probably heavily suffered We managed to settle a continent back when government spending was about 1% of GDP (as compared to 30% today), so go
by tjic 18y ago
> governance has probably heavily suffered
We managed to settle a continent back when government spending was about 1% of GDP (as compared to 30% today), so government mostly breaking down wouldn't strike me as a big problem. Heck, Somalia has functioning water distribution companies, cell phone companies, etc., even without any government.
- tectonic 18y agoMy larger concern would be coordination of food distribution from farms to cities.
- anamax 18y agoWhat can you do for farmers and distributors?
- randallsquared 18y agoMy guess is that vast numbers of first-worlders would die waiting for someone else (the government, the rich, whoever) to save them. Somalia was better than much of the rest of Africa by a lot of measures around 1999-2001, but things haven't gotten better since then, partly due to the destabilizing tactics of its neighbors, who seem to prefer tyranny or kleptocracy to anarchy, there.