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What is the most difficult thing people learn in their 20's?
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoReposting my answer to the commenter linked here. Your answer is true, but stupid. If by "our country" we're talking about the United States, the answers and solutions are bloody trivial. Many of America's past public policies work better than its current ones; many public policies of America's peers work better than any of those ever implemented in America. When the entire rest of the world has spent a century exploring the solution-space, poaching the best of all systems and implementing it all together in a lean, mean hybrid is not that difficult a plan to come up with. And no, I'm not talking about a wondrous anarchist utopia, I'm talking about tested, proven ways of doing things better than the USA currently does them. Maybe Paradise isn't around the corner, but we've a lot of experience at building a society so self-satisfied and easy to live in that people start contemplating their existential angst. The deeper problem is that most of the American elite is now composed of people with a vested financial and ideological interest in our current system, mostly loosely referred to as neoliberalism, which has been continually making things worse. So the hard problem is not what you do once you've won power, because we already know how to run a good society, even if great ones may be very difficult. The hard problem is how you get the people dedicated to ruling over a wasteland to relinquish the steering wheel.