1/ wife & I talk about this a lot - government, in theory, solves coordination problems there are, in fact, some big ones out there - vaccines, roads, post offices. sure, I'm an ancap, and think that private firms COULD do much of this, but I admit that gov ALSO can do thesehttps://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1198983313437782016 …
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I was going to make a long form joke about how well the American system apportioned state authority, political enfranchisement/representation, and individual agency so well before bad actors decided it was cool to reinterpret what the constitution said rather than amend it
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And how well that was working out until they did, but Twitter ate it
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Another failure mode I've noticed: Benefits systems almost always spend far more on testing if people are entitled than it would cost to allow a few more fraud cases through. But the right can't be seen to be "soft on fraudsters" and the left won't lay off a bunch of their voters
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I disagree here fraud scales imagine if paypal didn't do XYZ you wouldn't see 5% more fraud - you'd see 90,000% percent
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