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Creating good governance(whether it's government, charities, corporations, and so on) is one of the biggest unsolved problem for humanity. Yes, we function qui
by kiba 13y ago
Creating good governance(whether it's government, charities, corporations, and so on) is one of the biggest unsolved problem for humanity.
Yes, we function quite well on some level. We wouldn't have a civilization otherwise. It does seems that the government is so inefficient in many way that reducing many of them would probably lead to an order of magnitude of improvement in the lives of human beings, economically and socially.
- crusso 13y agoLike a complex computer and software system, government needs to be refactored. Besides revolution, I don't know how to force that refactoring.
- dllthomas 13y agoI think what we need most is testing. Currently, the system looks like this: A bunch of salespeople (legislators), chosen mostly for the feature changes they say they want to make (or prevent) sit down in a room and negotiate. Developers (staffers), chosen by those salespeople, turn it into code - which, after some audit (but no testing) is pushed straight into production. It is then patched in the field by QA & tech support (judges and lawyers) - those patches never make it back into the source. Also, revolution isn't refactoring - it's starting a complete rewrite after you turn off your production system, and is usually every bit as bad an idea as you'd expect.
- rayiner 13y agoI love the software analogy, because it puts people who think we need revolution in the same camp as people who think Microsoft should rewrite Windows.
- crusso 13y agoWow, if only that analogy were appropriate. If you're unhappy with your government, just install Linux over it or get a Mac. On top of that, Microsoft rewrites Windows all the time. Their customers follow them from one release to the next because they do so.